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Telesat launch agreements awarded to SpaceX
The Canadian telecom satellite operator Telesat plans to launch two multipurpose communications spacecraft aboard SpaceX Falcon rockets in 2018, the company disclosed this week in a quarterly earnings announcement.
SpaceX launch aborted in final minutes
SpaceX kept an upgraded Falcon 9 rocket on the ground Thursday after running into a problem loading super-cold liquid propellants into the launcher's fuel tanks, postponing blastoff of a commercial communications satellite for the second day in a row.
Commercial Falcon 9 launch delayed to Thursday
SpaceX called off the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral on Wednesday to make sure the booster's supply of super-chilled cryogenic liquid oxygen is cold enough to support the delivery of the 5.8-ton SES 9 commercial communications satellite to an orbit nearly 25,000 miles above Earth.
Live coverage: SpaceX finally launches Falcon 9 rocket
SpaceX successfully launched an oft-delayed Falcon 9 rocket mission at 6:35 p.m. EST (2335 GMT) Friday after more than a week of delays caused by issues with super-chilled liquid oxygen propellant, a boat the strayed into restricted waters offshore Cape Canaveral, and extreme upper level winds. The experimental recovery of the first stage on an ocean-going barge was not a success.
Falcon 9 rocket to give SES 9 telecom satellite an extra boost
SpaceX and SES, owner of a 5.8-ton commercial telecom satellite poised for launch from Cape Canaveral on Wednesday, struck a deal to tweak the Falcon 9 rocket's launch profile to give the SES 9 spacecraft a stronger push toward its operating post more than 22,000 miles above Earth.
SES eager to fly satellite aboard used Falcon 9 rocket
In one of the strongest public endorsements of SpaceX's initiative to put a reusable launcher on the commercial market, a top official from satellite communications giant SES said Tuesday that the company wants to fly one of its pricey payloads on a used Falcon 9 rocket, perhaps even without a test flight.
Q&A with Martin Halliwell, chief technology officer at SES
The chief technology officer of SES, operator of the world's largest commercial geostationary satellite fleet, spoke with reporters on the eve of the launch of the company's SES 9 communications craft aboard a Falcon 9 rocket.
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)