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VideoData, not debris, takes spotlight in Falcon 9 failure investigation
Although recovery teams in the Atlantic Ocean have retrieved wreckage from Sunday's Falcon 9 launch failure, the best clues to the cause of the crash lie in raw data transmitted from the rocket as it disintegrated, SpaceX officials said Wednesday.
VideoFalcon 9 rocket destroyed in launch mishap
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying a Dragon cargo ship loaded with more than 4,000 pounds of supplies and equipment bound for the International Space Station -- including a critical docking adapter needed by future U.S. crew ships -- broke apart in a shower of debris shortly after launch Sunday.
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.
VideoOTD…June 21 and STS-57
#OTD in 1993...Endeavour launched with the first Spacehab module and retrieval of the European EURECA satellite
VideoProgress failure probe points to linkage with Soyuz rocket
Russia says a design bug from the pairing of a Progress spacecraft with an upgraded version of the venerable Soyuz launcher led to the loss of a resupply mission bound for the International Space Station on April 28.
VideoDashcam video records dazzling Soyuz docking
A video camera mounted inside a Russian Soyuz capsule captured stunning views of the docking of a U.S.-Russian crew to the International Space Station in March, supplying a spectacular visual of a cosmic ballet occurring 250 miles above Earth.
VideoSpace station module moved to clear path for cargo ships
Ground controllers powered up the International Space Station's robotic arm and repositioned a storage module Wednesday to give visiting cargo delivery vehicles a second parking port at the complex.
VideoOTD…May 14 and STS-132
On this day in 2010, Atlantis on her next-to-final mission launches with Russia's Rassvet mini module for the International Space Station
VideoOTD…May 11 and STS-125
#OTD...In 2009, the final Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission launched