Mission Reports – Page 466

May 9, 2025

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[ May 6, 2025 ] SpaceX launch 28 Starlink satellites on 470th Falcon 9 rocket launch Falcon 9
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[ May 3, 2025 ] SpaceX puts Vandenberg launch on hold Falcon 9

Video: SpaceX supply mission explodes just after launch

June 28, 2015 Stephen Clark

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket failed approximately 2 minutes, 20 seconds after liftoff from Cape Canaveral on Sunday. Watch a video of the dramatic launch failure, plus a slowed-down high-definition version at one-tenth normal speed.

Photos: Falcon 9 breaks apart en route to ISS

June 28, 2015 Stephen Clark

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket broke apart just after launch on a commercial resupply run to the International Space Station. Here are a few images from NASA TV’s launch broadcast.

Photos: SpaceX supply ship poised for blastoff

June 28, 2015 Stephen Clark

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, standing 208 feet tall, is mounted on a Cape Canaveral launch pad for liftoff with a fresh package of supplies and research experiments for the International Space Station.

Falcon 9/SpaceX CRS-7 launch timeline

June 27, 2015 Stephen Clark

Follow the key events of the Falcon 9 rocket’s ascent into orbit from Cape Canaveral on SpaceX’s seventh operational resupply mission to the International Space Station.

Live coverage: Falcon 9 disintegrates after launch

June 27, 2015 Stephen Clark

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket disintegrated shortly after launch from Cape Canaveral on Sunday, dealing a blow to the entrepreneurial space company and NASA’s supply chain to the International Space Station.

Falcon 9 rocket passes last major preflight test

June 26, 2015 Stephen Clark

Ground crews plan to load the final cargo into SpaceX’s Dragon supply ship Saturday after the capsule’s Falcon 9 rocket booster briefly fired up on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral for a flight readiness check.

Cosmonaut from Kazakhstan to fly on Soyuz in September

June 25, 2015 Stephen Clark

Russia’s space agency says a Kazakh cosmonaut will fly to the International Space Station on 10-day mission in September, replacing British singer Sarah Brightman, who backed out of the mission in May.

SpaceX aims for another rocket landing experiment Sunday

June 25, 2015 Stephen Clark

Keeping with its mantra of fly, fix and fly again, SpaceX says it has resolved a valve problem that kept one of its Falcon 9 boosters from successfully touching down on a barge in the Atlantic Ocean in April, ahead of another landing attempt after a launch from Cape Canaveral set for Sunday.

Astronaut Scott Kelly looks down on aurora lights

June 24, 2015 Stephen Clark

From a perch more than 250 miles up, astronaut Scott Kelly got a bird’s-eye view of this week’s spectacular auroral display that enraptured skywatchers around the world.

Photos: Vega launch lights up French Guiana

June 23, 2015 Stephen Clark

Monday night’s blastoff of a Vega rocket from the northern shore of South America dispatched a 2,500-pound Earth imaging satellite for Europe and put on a light show across the tropical spaceport at the edge of the Amazon.