Falcon 9
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Ariane 5
Ariane 5
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Ariane 5
Ariane 5
Ariane 5
Ariane 5
Falcon 9
Fire returns to flame trench at Apollo-era launch pad in Florida
Nine Merlin engines ignited and throttled up to nearly 2 million pounds of thrust Sunday during a brief hold-down firing of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, sending a plume of smoke out of the flame trench at Kennedy Space Center’s historic launch pad 39A as the company preps for a space station cargo mission next weekend.