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SpaceX conducts static fire test for Wednesday’s Falcon 9 flight
Technicians planned to attach two Boeing-built communications satellites to a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Monday, a day after launch controllers fueled the rocket and fired its nine Merlin first stage engines in a key preflight test.
SpaceX’s latest booster back home as company mulls pricing, proof tests
A Falcon 9 rocket core recovered after last week's launch of a Thai communications satellite returned to port in Florida on Thursday as SpaceX preps a separate rocket structure for tests to prove it can withstand multiple missions and mulls pricing of a previously-flown rocket, targeting a re-flight of a used booster by the end of the summer.
Elon Musk hopes SpaceX will send humans to Mars in 2024
SpaceX's plan to send a Dragon capsule to Mars in 2018 will be the first in a sequence of unmanned commercial missions to the rust-colored world before the first voyage with humans as soon as 2024, SpaceX founder Elon Musk said Wednesday.
VideoRide aboard the Falcon 9 rocket’s first stage on descent
Take a virtual trip from space back to planet Earth with an sped up video clip showing the eye-popping on-board views from the Falcon 9 rocket's first stage booster as it plummeted back to Earth, opened aerodynamic steering fins and fired its engines for a final braking maneuver just before touchdown.
SpaceX logs successful late afternoon launch for Thaicom
A Falcon 9 rocket took off from Cape Canaveral and climbed into space Friday, propelling a Thai television relay satellite into orbit and achieving its third dramatic ocean landing in a row, adding to SpaceX's growing inventory of recovered rocket boosters.
Stressing caution, SpaceX delays commercial satellite launch
SpaceX scrubbed a launch Thursday to investigate a "tiny glitch" in an upper stage engine actuator on the company's Falcon 9 rocket, delaying liftoff from Florida of a Thai communications satellite at least 24 hours.
Photos: SpaceX prepares to launch 25th Falcon 9 rocket
A Thai communications satellite is fastened to the top of SpaceX's 229-foot-tall Falcon 9 rocket for launch Thursday. See photos of the Falcon 9 and Thaicom 8 being prepared for liftoff.
Live coverage: Falcon 9 launches with Thai satellite and first stage lands at sea
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket Friday at 5:39 p.m. EDT (2139 GMT). The commercial booster is hauling up the Thaicom 8 television broadcasting satellite from Cape Canaveral. The rocket's first stage successfully landed on SpaceX's recovery platform in the Atlantic Ocean.
Timeline for Falcon 9’s launch of the Thaicom 8 satellite
The Falcon 9 rocket's fifth flight of the year will take off from Cape Canaveral on Thursday, heaving the Thaicom 8 communications satellite into orbit on an easterly trajectory from Florida's Space Coast.
SpaceX ‘on track’ to launch astronauts in late 2017
SpaceX is on schedule to fly two NASA astronauts on a test flight to the International Space Station by the end of 2017, but there is a lot of work to do to ensure the company's new Crew Dragon spaceship is up to the task and ready in time, a SpaceX manager said Tuesday.