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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.
Live coverage: SpaceX prepares for station cargo launch
A Falcon 9 rocket was raised into position at pad 39A on Sunday for a customary test firing of its nine first stage Merlin engines. The rocket is being readied for a launch Thursday with a Dragon capsule carrying supplies to the International Space Station.
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.
Video: Press site view of Falcon 9’s Monday evening takeoff
Check out a replay of Monday evening's launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida in this video recorded from the Launch Complex 39 Press Site around three miles from the pad.
Watch a replay of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launch with Inmarsat 5 F4
Miss Monday night's launch from Kennedy Space Center? Watch a replay of the Falcon 9 rocket taking off with the Inmarsat 5 F4 communications satellite, a heavyweight spacecraft designed to link airliners, ships and others on-the-go via broadband.
Photos: Falcon 9 rocket, fourth Inmarsat 5-series satellite prepared for launch
Engineers from SpaceX, Boeing and Inmarsat spent the last few weeks preparing a Falcon 9 rocket and the Inmarsat 5 F4 communications satellite for liftoff from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.