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Live views of launch pad 39A (members only)

May 9, 2018 Spaceflight Now

Watch live views from the Kennedy Space Center’s launch pad 39A as SpaceX prepares for the first flight of the Block 5 Falcon 9 rocket. The rocket is scheduled to launch the Bangabandhu 1 communications satellite no earlier than 10 May.

First launch of enhanced version of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 set for Thursday

May 7, 2018 Stephen Clark

The launch of Bangladesh’s first communications satellite on top of a new version of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is set for Thursday, officials said Monday, after a data review following a hold-down engine firing last week.

SpaceX’s first Falcon 9 Block 5 test-fired at pad 39A

May 5, 2018 Stephen Clark

SpaceX’s launch team loaded liquid propellants into the company’s first upgraded Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket Friday at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and the countdown rehearsal culminated in a brief ignition of the launcher’s nine Merlin main engines on the launch pad.

Time-lapse video: First Falcon 9 Block 5 arrives at pad 39A for hotfire test

May 3, 2018 Stephen Clark

SpaceX’s first Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket, sporting changes to make the booster easier to reuse, rolled out of its hangar and up the ramp to launch pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Thursday ahead of a planned hold-down engine firing.

Live coverage: Upgraded Falcon 9 rocket test-fired at pad 39A

May 3, 2018 Stephen Clark

SpaceX conducted the first hold-down firing of an upgraded version of the Falcon 9 rocket Friday at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, in preparation for launch next week with Bangladesh’s first communications satellite.

SpaceX set to debut upgraded Falcon 9 rocket

April 24, 2018 Stephen Clark

SpaceX technicians at Cape Canaveral are readying for the first launch of an upgraded Falcon 9 rocket configuration next week, a mission that will debut changes to make the launcher safer for astronauts and make it easier — and less expensive — for the company to reuse first stage boosters.

Live views of launch pad 39A (members only)

First launch of enhanced version of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 set for Thursday

SpaceX’s first Falcon 9 Block 5 test-fired at pad 39A

Time-lapse video: First Falcon 9 Block 5 arrives at pad 39A for hotfire test

Live coverage: Upgraded Falcon 9 rocket test-fired at pad 39A

SpaceX set to debut upgraded Falcon 9 rocket

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Live video of launch pad 39A (members only)