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VideoRocket landing at Cape Canaveral planned after SpaceX launch
Assuming SpaceX's plans come to fruition, a Falcon 9 flight from Cape Canaveral on Sunday will end with a vertical rocket-assisted landing at an abandoned Cold War-era launch facility a few miles away.
VideoOrbcomm first in Falcon 9’s return-to-flight launch queue
Going with a philosophy that favors incremental testing of an upgraded version of the Falcon 9 booster, SpaceX officials said Friday that eleven mini-satellites for Orbcomm's data relay business will fly on the company's first mission since a launch failure in June.
VideoFirst static fire completed on upgraded Falcon 9
SpaceX's upgraded Falcon 9 booster powered up to full throttle in a brief ignition at the company's Central Texas test site this week as engineers prepare for the rocket's return to flight as soon as mid-November with a European communications satellite.
VideoSupport strut probable cause of Falcon 9 failure
A faulty support strut inside the Falcon 9 rocket's second stage liquid oxygen tank likely broke free during a June 28 space station resupply launch, destroying the booster minutes after liftoff in a cloud of debris over the Atlantic Ocean, SpaceX chief Elon Musk said Monday.
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.
VideoSpaceX aims for another rocket landing experiment Sunday
Keeping with its mantra of fly, fix and fly again, SpaceX says it has resolved a valve problem that kept one of its Falcon 9 boosters from successfully touching down on a barge in the Atlantic Ocean in April, ahead of another landing attempt after a launch from Cape Canaveral set for Sunday.
VideoVideo: Falcon 9 nose shroud falls back to Earth
SpaceX has released another jaw-dropping video from a camera fastened to a piece of a Falcon 9 rocket's payload fairing, showing the nose cone spinning through space after its separation on a recent launch.