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SpaceX on track for cargo launch Monday
Weather forecasters will be on the lookout for rain showers and thunderstorms during Monday's scheduled launch of a SpaceX cargo craft to the International Space Station, but there is a 60 percent chance conditions at Cape Canaveral will permit liftoff.
SpaceX cargo launch now set for April 13
The launch of SpaceX's next resupply run to the International Space Station has been rescheduled for April 13, officials said Tuesday.
SpaceX swaps order of next two Falcon 9 launches
Confronted with pesky problems in the Falcon 9 rocket's helium pressurization system, SpaceX has shuffled the order of the next two launches, choosing to go ahead with the liftoff of a Dragon supply ship on a cargo delivery flight to the International Space Station around April 10.
SpaceX puts off next Falcon 9 launch
SpaceX's next launch with a European-built communications satellite has been delayed to no earlier than March 28 to study a problem with a helium pressurization system on the Falcon 9 rocket, officials said Tuesday.
Innovative satellites begin maneuvers with all-electric thrusters
Two ion-driven communications satellites launched from Cape Canaveral on March 1 have begun novel maneuvers using electric propulsion to reach operating posts 22,300 miles over the equator.
Weeks from another launch, SpaceX keeping pace with manifest
The next launch in SpaceX's busy manifest this year is scheduled for March 21, when a Falcon 9 rocket will take off from Cape Canaveral and deliver Turkmenistan's first satellite into orbit.
NASA orders missions to resupply space station in 2017
NASA has ordered four additional launches to deliver cargo to the International Space Station in 2017 -- three from SpaceX and one from Orbital ATK -- to cover the research lab's logistics needs until a new set of resupply contracts take effect.
Photos: Last look at Sunday’s launch by SpaceX
Sunday's liftoff of a Falcon 9 rocket marked the 16th flight of SpaceX's workhorse launcher, and its third mission of the year. Here is another set of launch photos from SpaceX.
Reader-submitted shots of Falcon 9 launch
Spaceflight Now readers sent in photos of Sunday's blastoff of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, which lit up a late-night moonlit sky over Florida's Space Coast on the way to orbit with two communications satellites.
Photos: Falcon 9 stands ready to launch dual-satellite stack
SpaceX's 22-story Falcon 9 rocket stands on Cape Canaveral's Complex 40 launch pad Sunday, hours before the scheduled liftoff of a pair of commercial communications satellites for Eutelsat and Asia Broadcast Satellite.