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Launch timeline for SpaceX’s 17th space station resupply mission
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket will go from Cape Canaveral to low Earth orbit in less than 10 minutes Saturday with a Dragon capsule heading for the International Space Station carrying nearly 5,500 pounds of supplies and experiments.
SpaceX likely to move next rocket landing to drone ship
SpaceX is likely to land the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket set for launch April 30 on a drone ship just off the coast of Cape Canaveral, not at the company's onshore recovery site as originally planned, after a ground test of the company's Crew Dragon capsule at the landing pad ended in an explosion Saturday.
Falcon Heavy core booster tips over in rough seas after drone ship landing
The core booster from the Falcon Heavy rocket that launched Thursday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida tipped over in rough seas after landing on an offshore drone ship, SpaceX officials said Monday.
Photos: SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy aces second mission
Photos captured by remote cameras placed at launch pad 39A show SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket soaring skyward Thursday evening atop more than 5 million pounds of thrust.
SpaceX retrieves Falcon Heavy fairings from sea for reuse on future launch
SpaceX founder and chief executive Elon Musk said Thursday that the company's recovery fleet in the Atlantic Ocean recovered the two halves of the Falcon Heavy's payload shroud after the heavy-lifter's second launch from the Kennedy Space Center. Musk said the company plans to reuse the fairing for the first time later this year.
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successful in commercial debut
On its second flight, SpaceX's mammoth Falcon Heavy rocket hurled an Arabsat communications satellite the size of a school bus nearly one-quarter the way to the moon Thursday, days after NASA's administrator identified the privately-developed rocket as a backup to the agency's behind-schedule Space Launch System for sending astronauts back to the lunar surface.
Photos: SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy fires into a clear evening sky
Soaring into a clear early evening sky, SpaceX's second Falcon Heavy rocket lifted off from a seaside launch complex Thursday at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida before a crowd of thousands of space enthusiasts.
Watch the Falcon Heavy go upright at launch pad 39A
The Falcon Heavy is lifted upright at launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center on April 10, 2019, in this time-lapse video.
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy ready for first commercial launch
A little more than a year after the Falcon Heavy rocket's first test flight, SpaceX teams on Florida's Space Coast are readying the world's most powerful operational launcher for its second mission Thursday with a commercial communications satellite.
Launch timeline for Falcon Heavy’s second flight
SpaceX’s second Falcon Heavy rocket is set for liftoff Thursday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and the heavy-lift launcher will head on an easterly course over the Atlantic Ocean atop more than 5 million pounds of thrust.