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Falcon 9 rocket set for launch Friday from California
SpaceX is set to close out a record-breaking 2017 launch campaign Friday night with the delivery of 10 more Iridium voice and data relay satellites to orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.
Photos: Falcon 9 lifts off from Cape Canaveral, returns for landing
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket closed out a busy 2017 Cape Canaveral launch schedule on Dec. 15 with a successful liftoff on a space station resupply mission. The Falcon 9's first stage booster, making its second launch, returned to Florida's Space Coast for an on-target landing.
Station astronauts begin unpacking refurbished SpaceX cargo craft
A SpaceX-owned supply ship arrived at the International Space Station on Sunday with 2.4 tons of cargo, including space debris and solar energy monitors mounted in the Dragon spacecraft's external payload bay and more than 3,400 pounds of gear inside its reused pressurized module.
VideoVideo: Dragon capsule arrives at space station
Closing out a two-day pursuit following launch from Cape Canaveral, a reused SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule arrived at the International Space Station Sunday with more than 4,800 pounds of supplies and experiments.
Watch the Falcon 9 launch and 1st stage landing from every angle
Watch replays of the launch and landing of a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a Dragon cargo ship to the International Space Station.
SpaceX’s 50th Falcon rocket launch kicks off station resupply mission
A cache of cargo bound for the International Space Station lifted off on a commercial SpaceX launcher Friday, thundering into mostly clear skies over Florida's Space Coast aboard a reused booster that made a bullseye landing back at Cape Canaveral accompanied by a crackling sonic boom.
Video: Falcon 9 launch replay from liftoff to landing
Flying with a reused first stage and a recycled Dragon supply ship, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral on Friday bound for the International Space Station on an unpiloted cargo delivery mission.
Members only: Press site view of SpaceX’s 13th space station resupply launch
Watch a replay of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifting off from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad Friday, as seen from the Kennedy Space Center press site five miles away.
Timeline for SpaceX’s next station cargo launch
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket will go from Cape Canaveral to low Earth orbit in 10 minutes Friday with a Dragon capsule heading for the International Space Station carrying more than 4,800 pounds of supplies and experiments.
Photos: Upgraded New Shepard booster flies from West Texas
Blue Origin's third New Shepard suborbital booster lifted off on its first brief up-and-down test flight Tuesday, soaring to an altitude of 322,000 feet over West Texas to prove out the rocket and its automated crew capsule, which flew with a dummy dubbed "Mannequin Skywalker" to simulate the conditions passengers riding the rocket will one day experience.