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Photos: Previously-flown Falcon 9 booster poised for launch
A Falcon 9 rocket powered by a reused first stage booster rolled out Tuesday to pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a day before its scheduled liftoff with an Airbus-built communications satellite designed for television broadcasts over the Americas.
Falcon 9 launch timeline with SES 11/EchoStar 105
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is set for liftoff from Cape Canaveral on Wednesday evening, heading due east over the Atlantic Ocean to deliver the SES 11/EchoStar 105 communications satellite into orbit 36 minutes later.
VideoLive coverage: SpaceX delivers joint SES/EchoStar satellite to orbit
Crowned with a European-built communications satellite designed to broadcast television over the Americas, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with a previously-flown first stage booster lifted off Kennedy Space Center's launch pad 39A Wednesday at 6:53 p.m. EDT (2253 GMT).
Photos: Falcon 9 rocket’s predawn launch from California
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket took off Monday from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California with 10 new satellites for Iridium's upgraded communications network in low Earth orbit.
Video: Iridium payload released from Falcon 9 rocket in orbit
Watch a replay from a camera mounted on-board SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket as it released one of 10 Iridium Next communications satellites Monday nearly 400 miles above Earth.
SpaceX launch adds another 10 satellites to Iridium Next fleet
Ten more satellites for Iridium's upgraded voice and data communications fleet rode a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket into a nearly 400-mile-high orbit from California's Central Coast Monday.
Video: Launch to landing replay of Monday’s Falcon 9 flight
Watch this replay of Monday's liftoff of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, followed by touchdown of the booster's first stage on a drone ship in the Pacific Ocean.
VideoLive coverage: Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from California, lands in Pacific
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket at 5:37 a.m. PDT (8:37 a.m. EDT; 1237 GMT) Monday from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California with the third set of 10 new-generation satellites for Iridium's voice and data relay network. The Falcon 9's first stage booster successfully landed on a platform in the Pacific Ocean a few minutes after liftoff.
Photos: SpaceX preps Falcon 9 rocket for launch from Vandenberg
SpaceX aims to launch a Falcon 9 rocket Monday from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California with 10 new satellites for Iridium's tracking and message relay constellation in low Earth orbit.
Timeline for Falcon 9’s third launch of Iridium satellites
Follow the key events of the Falcon 9 rocket's ascent to orbit with the third set of 10 next-generation satellites for Iridium's voice and data relay fleet.