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VideoLive coverage: SpaceX launches heavyweight Canadian telecom satellite
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral at 1:50 a.m. EDT (0550 GMT) Sunday with the Telstar 19 VANTAGE communications satellite, a powerhouse spacecraft designed to beam broadband and in-flight WiFi signals across the Americas and the North Atlantic. The rocket's first stage successfully landed at sea aboard SpaceX's drone ship.
VideoSpaceX launches AI-enabled robot companion, vegetation monitor to space station
A commercial SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule packed with a robot assistant for the International Space Station's crew, pouches of extra strong coffee, and a NASA science instrument designed to track the health of plants on Earth left Cape Canaveral aboard a Falcon 9 rocket Friday on a three-day pursuit of the orbiting research lab.
VideoLive coverage: SpaceX supply ship arrives at space station
A SpaceX-owned Dragon supply ship packed with nearly three tons of cargo arrived at the International Space Station on Monday after a three-day trip from Cape Canaveral. The station's robotic arm grappled the cargo capsule at 6:54 a.m. EDT (1054 GMT).
VideoLive coverage: SpaceX rocket launches with SES 12 communications satellite
SpaceX has launched a Falcon 9 rocket with a previously-flown first stage booster carrying the SES 12 communications satellite, an all-electric, multi-band video and data relay platform to serve the Asia-Pacific region. Liftoff from Cape Canaveral occurred at 12:45 a.m. EDT (0445 GMT), and SpaceX did not plan to recover the first stage.
VideoLive coverage: Iridium satellites, climate research craft lift off from California
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off Tuesday with five communications satellites for Iridium's commercial voice, data relay, and tracking network, and a pair of U.S.-German research craft to probe Earth's climate and water cycle. Launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, occurred at 12:47 p.m. PDT (3:47 p.m. EDT; 1947 GMT).
VideoLive coverage: SpaceX launches first upgraded Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket
SpaceX launched the first of the company's upgraded generation of Falcon 9 launchers, known as Block 5, from the Kennedy Space Center on Friday at 4:14 p.m. EDT (2014 GMT). The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off with Bangladesh's first communications satellite, and SpaceX recovered the rocket's first stage on a vessel in the Atlantic Ocean.
VideoPotential contamination not a concern for space station’s new lightning instrument
Scientists working on a new lightning detection instrument mounted outside the International Space Station said Tuesday they expect little effect on the sensor's performance from possible contamination from the upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that launched it into orbit April 2.
VideoLive coverage: NASA planet-hunting satellite launched by SpaceX
SpaceX and NASA launched a planet-hunting satellite Wednesday from Cape Canaveral, two days after calling off a launch attempt to conduct additional guidance, navigation and control analyses. Liftoff occurred at 6:51 p.m. EDT (2251 GMT), and the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket successfully landed on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.
VideoLive coverage: SpaceX resupply mission arrives at space station
A day-and-a-half after lifting off from Cape Canaveral, a SpaceX Dragon supply ship arrived at the International Space Station on Wednesday with more than 5,800 pounds of experiments, provisions and other hardware to support the orbiting lab's six-person crew. The cargo capsule was captured by the station's robotic arm at 6:40 a.m. EDT (1040 GMT).
VideoEliminating space junk could take step toward reality with station cargo launch
European engineers who developed a small satellite hitching a ride to the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX supply ship Monday are gearing up for a first-of-a-kind experiment to examine ways to snare a chunk of space junk and tug it back to Earth.