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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.
Soyuz rocket rolled out for critical ISS cargo launch
An eight-ton Russian Progress supply ship packed with nearly three tons of food, water and fuel for the International Space Station is ready for liftoff Friday on a vital mission to resume cargo deliveries to the outpost after back-to-back logistics flights fell short.
Padalka breaks spaceflight endurance record
Veteran Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka, more than three months into his fifth trip into orbit, has passed countryman Sergey Krikalev's mark of 803 days of cumulative time in space.
Satellite owners among bystanders in Falcon 9 accident
The long queue of satellites waiting on launches aboard SpaceX's Falcon rockets -- a backlog the company says is worth $7 billion -- will stay grounded while investigators determine what caused a Falcon 9 booster to disintegrate after liftoff Sunday.
Photos: Falcon 9 blasts off, then breaks apart in mid-air
Cameras positioned around SpaceX's launch facility at Cape Canaveral captured stunning photos of the Falcon 9 rocket's picturesque blastoff into a sun-splashed sky Sunday morning, but the photogenic launch went awry minutes later.
Preps begin for summer’s third planned military space launch
Tucked inside a shipping crate aboard an Air Force C-5 transport aircraft, the Navy's next mobile communications satellite has flown from California to Florida in preparation for liftoff this summer.
SpaceX failure adds another kink in station supply chain
Managers in charge of International Space Station say the massive orbiting laboratory and its residents can keep going despite Sunday's failure of a SpaceX resupply launch, which destroyed a new docking adapter critical to NASA's commercial crew program, a spacesuit, and a part to repair the lab's water purification system.
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.