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SpaceX rocket again set for station delivery after scientists swap mice, fruit flies
A Falcon 9 rocket is again standing upright on launch pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida after ground teams lowered the booster Friday to swap out mice heading to the International Space Station for medical experiments.
Lightning near launch pad scrubs liftoff of SpaceX supply ship
Stormy weather near NASA's Kennedy Space Center kept SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket on the ground Thursday, delaying liftoff of a commercial supply ship with equipment and experiments for the International Space Station until Saturday.
Live coverage: SpaceX’s Dragon cargo capsule arrives at space station
Two days after blasting off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, SpaceX's refurbished Dragon supply ship arrived at the International Space Station on Monday with nearly 6,000 pounds of experiments and equipment. Grapple of Dragon by the station's robot arm occurred at 9:52 a.m. EDT (1352 GMT).
Refurbished SpaceX supply ship ready for liftoff Thursday
SpaceX will go for another first Thursday, this time flying a refurbished Dragon supply ship carrying nearly 6,000 pounds of cargo and experiments to the International Space Station nearly three years after its first mission.
Falcon 9 rocket fires engines in hold-down test for station resupply launch
SpaceX ran through countdown and fueling procedures with a Falcon 9 rocket at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sunday, culminating in ignition of the booster's nine first stage Merlin engines in a customary check of the launcher's readiness before liftoff Thursday with a Dragon supply ship for the International Space Station.
Video: SpaceX test-fires Falcon 9 rocket at pad 39A
Four days before its scheduled blastoff on a resupply run to the International Space Station, a Falcon 9 rocket ran through a countdown rehearsal and engine test Sunday at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Observers spot top secret satellite launched by SpaceX earlier this month
A network of amateur skywatchers and satellite observers have located a classified spacecraft owned by the National Reconnaissance Office, a U.S. government intelligence agency, in low Earth orbit after its launch May 1 from Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
EchoStar, SES satellites enter service after March launches from Cape Canaveral
Two communications satellites launched from Cape Canaveral in March aboard Falcon 9 rockets, including a broadcasting craft that lifted off on SpaceX's first re-flown booster, have entered commercial service, according to their owners.
Photos: SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket begins flight with Inmarsat satellite
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket took off for its sixth flight of the year Monday from launch pad 39A in Florida, lofting an Inmarsat mobile broadband communications satellite to an orbit more than 40,000 miles above Earth.
Fourth satellite for Inmarsat’s global broadband network launched by SpaceX
A Boeing-built satellite on the way to join Inmarsat's globe-spanning network geared to beam Internet and data transmission capacity to airline passengers, maritime crews and military personnel flew into orbit Monday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard an expendable Falcon 9 rocket.