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Falcon 9

SpaceX’s latest booster back home as company mulls pricing, proof tests

June 3, 2016 Stephen Clark

A Falcon 9 rocket core recovered after last week’s launch of a Thai communications satellite returned to port in Florida on Thursday as SpaceX preps a separate rocket structure for tests to prove it can withstand multiple missions and mulls pricing of a previously-flown rocket, targeting a re-flight of a used booster by the end of the summer.

Falcon 9

Ride aboard the Falcon 9 rocket’s first stage on descent

May 28, 2016 Stephen Clark

Take a virtual trip from space back to planet Earth with an sped up video clip showing the eye-popping on-board views from the Falcon 9 rocket’s first stage booster as it plummeted back to Earth, opened aerodynamic steering fins and fired its engines for a final braking maneuver just before touchdown.

Falcon 9

SpaceX logs successful late afternoon launch for Thaicom

May 27, 2016 Stephen Clark

A Falcon 9 rocket took off from Cape Canaveral and climbed into space Friday, propelling a Thai television relay satellite into orbit and achieving its third dramatic ocean landing in a row, adding to SpaceX’s growing inventory of recovered rocket boosters.

Falcon 9

Live coverage: Falcon 9 launches with Thai satellite and first stage lands at sea

May 26, 2016 Stephen Clark

SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket Friday at 5:39 p.m. EDT (2139 GMT). The commercial booster is hauling up the Thaicom 8 television broadcasting satellite from Cape Canaveral. The rocket’s first stage successfully landed on SpaceX’s recovery platform in the Atlantic Ocean.

Falcon 9

Timeline for Falcon 9’s launch of the Thaicom 8 satellite

May 25, 2016 Stephen Clark

The Falcon 9 rocket’s fifth flight of the year will take off from Cape Canaveral on Thursday, heaving the Thaicom 8 communications satellite into orbit on an easterly trajectory from Florida’s Space Coast.

Falcon 9

Falcon 9 sails through customary preflight engine firing

May 25, 2016 Stephen Clark

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket ignited its nine kerosene-fueled Merlin engines on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral on Tuesday evening in a critical milestone before liftoff with a commercial Thai communications satellite later in the week.

Falcon 9

SpaceX pencils in July for next Falcon 9 landing at Cape Canaveral

May 24, 2016 Stephen Clark

The next chance for SpaceX to return a Falcon 9 booster to landing at Cape Canaveral will come in mid-July, when the company plans to launch a Dragon supply ship to the International Space Station, a company official said Tuesday.

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India flies winged space plane on experimental suborbital launch

May 23, 2016 Stephen Clark

A prototype for a future winged Indian spaceship took off early Monday on a suborbital flight 40 miles over the Bay of Bengal and steered itself to an on-target splashdown, testing a heat shield and guidance, navigation and control algorithms.

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India readies reusable launch vehicle testbed for flight

May 19, 2016 Stephen Clark

India’s space agency plans to boost a sleek winged prototype spacecraft into the upper atmosphere aboard a solid-fueled rocket early Monday on a brief test flight that will end with a controlled, unpowered glide to a simulated runway landing in the Bay of Bengal.

Falcon 9

Companies offer fresh perspectives on recent rocket landings

May 10, 2016 Stephen Clark

In case the the sight of a large rocket plummeting back to Earth, only to be slowed in the last seconds by a puff of thrust, hasn’t lost its novelty yet, SpaceX and Blue Origin have released dramatic videos showing their recent powered rocket landings from new angles.

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  • Republican-backed reconciliation bill passes, includes funding for ISS, Artemis programs, Space Shuttle relocation
    July 5, 2025
  • ULA begins stacking its 1st Vulcan rocket supporting a national security mission
    July 3, 2025
  • SpaceX launches its 500th Falcon 9 rocket
    July 1, 2025
  • EUMETSAT, ESA launches combo MTG-S1, Sentinel-4 satellite on SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center
    July 1, 2025
  • SpaceX completes 60th Starlink flight of 2025
    June 28, 2025
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