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Ideal weather predicted for Falcon 9 launch Sunday

January 16, 2016 Stephen Clark

Meteorologists predict mostly sunny skies, mild temperatures and light winds Sunday for the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from California’s Central Coast with a $364 million oceanography satellite for U.S. and European science institutions.

Hold-down firing completed ahead of Sunday’s Falcon 9 launch

January 12, 2016 Stephen Clark

SpaceX’s launch team ran through a traditional preflight test Monday, putting a Falcon 9 rocket through a mock countdown, loading it with propellant and briefly firing its nine engines on a launch pad in California ahead of this weekend’s liftoff with a U.S.-European oceanography satellite.

Offshore barge landing targeted after next Falcon 9 launch

January 11, 2016 Stephen Clark

Nearly a month after nailing a landing a rocket landing at Cape Canaveral, SpaceX plans to steer the next flight of a Falcon 9 booster toward a recovery vessel in the Pacific Ocean after a Jan. 17 blastoff from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

Ideal weather predicted for Falcon 9 launch Sunday

Hold-down firing completed ahead of Sunday’s Falcon 9 launch

Offshore barge landing targeted after next Falcon 9 launch

Weather satellite, Brazilian payload launched on Ariane 5

Live coverage: Two satellites blast off on Ariane 5

Next Ariane 5 launch reset for July 15

Jason 3 satellite shipped to Vandenberg for SpaceX launch

Launch of U.S.-French oceanography satellite postponed