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Flight timeline for Falcon 9’s launch of SES 9
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket is set for liftoff from Cape Canaveral on Thursday evening, heading due east over the Atlantic Ocean to deliver the SES 9 television broadcast satellite into orbit 31 minutes later.
Falcon 9 clears static fire test before launch this week
SpaceX's launch team in Cape Canaveral fueled a Falcon 9 rocket with super-chilled liquid propellants and briefly fired the first stage's nine Merlin engines Monday in a customary preflight test ahead of Wednesday's scheduled liftoff of a commercial television broadcasting satellite for the Asia-Pacific.
The first flight of SpaceX’s Dragon capsule
SpaceX launches its first Dragon capsule into orbit on a demonstration flight for NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program on December 8, 2010. (Membership Required)
SES says SpaceX will launch its satellite in late February
SpaceX's next launch from Cape Canaveral is set for Feb. 24, when a Falcon 9 rocket will carry a commercial television broadcasting satellite aloft for Luxembourg-based SES, the payload's owner announced Monday.
Falcon 9 upgrade receives blessing from U.S. Air Force
The U.S. Air Force on Monday certified the latest version of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, featuring higher-thrust engines, enlarged fuel tanks and a super-chilled propellant mixture, for launches of the military's most valuable satellites.
VideoDragon crew capsule’s propulsive landing system tested
SpaceX released a video Thursday showing a propulsive hover test of a prototype of the company's Dragon crew capsule conducted two months ago, a milestone in the development of the spaceship's rocket packs that will eventually guide the craft to helicopter-like landings.
SpaceX rocket wreckage back on shore after near-miss at landing
Debris from SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket booster returned to shore in Southern California late Monday after it tipped over on touchdown on a landing platform in the Pacific Ocean following liftoff with a ocean study satellite.
SpaceX narrowly misses booster landing at sea
One of four landing legs mounted to the base of SpaceX's Falcon 9 booster failed to engage on the rocket's final descent to a barge in the Pacific Ocean on Sunday, leaving wreckage scattered on the football field-sized deck of the landing ship after an otherwise successful launch with an ocean research satellite.
Satellite launched to measure motions of the oceans
A new satellite built to extend a 24-year series of joint U.S.-European ocean observatories climbed away from a foggy California launch pad and sailed into orbit more than 800 miles above Earth on Sunday aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
Live coverage: Falcon 9 launches ocean study satellite, barge landing fails
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from California's Central Coast at 10:42:18 a.m. PST (1:42:18 p.m. EST; 1842:18 GMT) Sunday with the Jason 3 oceanography satellite. A secondary objective of the mission to recover the first stage on a barge in the Pacific Ocean failed.