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VideoFalcon 9’s launch failure viewed from KSC press site
Spaceflight Now's camera at the Kennedy Space Center's Complex 39 press site captured this view of the Falcon 9 rocket's high-altitude anomaly Sunday.
VideoVideo: SpaceX supply mission explodes just after launch
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket failed approximately 2 minutes, 20 seconds after liftoff from Cape Canaveral on Sunday. Watch a video of the dramatic launch failure, plus a slowed-down high-definition version at one-tenth normal speed.
Photos: Falcon 9 breaks apart en route to ISS
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket broke apart just after launch on a commercial resupply run to the International Space Station. Here are a few images from NASA TV's launch broadcast.
Photos: SpaceX supply ship poised for blastoff
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, standing 208 feet tall, is mounted on a Cape Canaveral launch pad for liftoff with a fresh package of supplies and research experiments for the International Space Station.
Live coverage: Falcon 9 disintegrates after launch
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket disintegrated shortly after launch from Cape Canaveral on Sunday, dealing a blow to the entrepreneurial space company and NASA's supply chain to the International Space Station.
Falcon 9 rocket passes last major preflight test
Ground crews plan to load the final cargo into SpaceX's Dragon supply ship Saturday after the capsule's Falcon 9 rocket booster briefly fired up on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral for a flight readiness check.
Jason 3 satellite shipped to Vandenberg for SpaceX launch
An international oceanography satellite arrived at its California launch base from a factory in France on Thursday for fueling, testing and other final preps before its scheduled Aug. 8 blastoff on a Falcon 9 rocket.
Launch of U.S.-French oceanography satellite postponed
The launch of a U.S.-French oceanography satellite from California has been postponed from July 22 after engineers discovered contamination in one of the spacecraft's thrusters at its factory in France.
Photos: Tuesday’s SpaceX launch from Cape Canaveral
A sun-splashed Florida afternoon was the setting for Tuesday's liftoff of a Falcon 9 rocket, which fired its nine-engine booster stage and climbed into space with a commercial cargo spacecraft en route to the International Space Station.
VideoFalcon 9 successfully launches, descends to off-balance landing
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched from Cape Canaveral with a 2.2-ton package of supplies and experiments for the International Space Station on Tuesday, but the booster toppled over after descending to a barge parked in the Atlantic Ocean.