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Falcon 9 flight timeline with the JCSAT 14 satellite
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket is set for liftoff from Cape Canaveral early Friday, heading due east over the Atlantic Ocean to deliver the JCSAT 14 communications satellite into orbit 32 minutes later.
Live coverage: Falcon 9 roars into orbit with Japanese satellite
A Falcon 9 rocket took off for its fourth flight of the year Friday with a middle-of-the-night mission for SKY Perfect JSAT, a Tokyo-based satellite operator. The JCSAT 14 communications satellite launched from Cape Canaveral at 1:21 a.m. EDT (0521 GMT), and the rocket's first stage booster made a successful landing at sea a few minutes later.
Stormy weather in Florida delays Falcon 9 launch
SpaceX has delayed a planned Falcon 9 launch with a Japanese communications satellite to Friday due to inclement weather on Florida's Space Coast.
Hold-down test firing complete for next SpaceX launch
SpaceX technicians are attaching a Japanese communications satellite to the top of a Falcon 9 rocket ahead of a planned launch Thursday morning from Cape Canaveral.
Boeing borrows from inventory to speed docking adapter delivery
Spare parts warehoused in the the United States and Russia will help Boeing finish assembly of a third space station docking port to receive arriving astronauts aboard Boeing's CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsules, replacing a unit lost in a Falcon 9 launch failure last year.
Commercial Falcon 9 rocket launch scheduled for next week
SpaceX's next Falcon 9 rocket launch is set for no earlier than May 5, sources said Friday, with a Japanese television broadcasting satellite heading to orbit from Cape Canaveral.
Falcon 9 rocket wins landmark U.S. Air Force launch contract
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket will launch a third-generation GPS navigation satellite for the U.S. military in 2018, the Air Force said Wednesday, breaking a monopoly held by United Launch Alliance since its formation nearly a decade ago.
Q&A with Mark Mulqueen, Boeing’s space station program manager
The International Space Station's oldest sections launched nearly 17 years ago, and with the huge orbiting research complex now well into its operational life as a microgravity science lab, prime contractor Boeing's job is keeping the outpost going, according to Mark Mulqueen, who manages the aerospace company's space station program.
Expandable room installed on space station
The International Space Station's robotic arm, under the control of engineers on Earth, extracted an experimental inflatable habitat from the trunk of SpaceX's Dragon supply ship Saturday and attached it to the orbiting complex.
Flown Falcon 9 booster hoisted off landing platform
SpaceX rocket technicians offloaded the first stage of a Falcon 9 rocket from its landing platform Tuesday, beginning a pioneering test campaign to verify its readiness for another launch later this year.