The U.S. Air Force saw another delay in the launch of its Space Test Program-2 aboard SpaceX’ Falcon Heavy rocket at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Spaceflight Now reported Friday.
SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket is scheduled to lift off June 22 to send 24 payloads into space as part of a Department of Defense-led program that seeks to demonstrate interagency science and technology experiments.
SpaceXconducted a static fire test of the Falcon Heavy rocket’s center core booster at the company’s McGregor, Texas-based facility to prepare for a launch mission that will bring 23 satellites to orbit in June, Space.com reported Monday.
SpaceX is set to make the first commercial launch of its new Falcon Heavy rocket in early April, an event being observed by the U.S. Air Force for future use of the reusable launch vehicle in national security missions, Space News reported Monday. Â
SpaceX is modifying the Kennedy Space Center’s Pad 39A to launch crews of the Dragon 2 spacecraft, NASA Spaceflight reported Thursday. The company had signed a 20-year agreement with NASA and Space Florida, the state’s economic development agency, to lease the pad to launch Falcon 9 rockets and the Falcon Heavy. The Falcon 9 rockets will lift the Dragon 2 […] More
Officials from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center have reviewed SpaceX’s proposal to expand its facilities in the spaceport to support more rocket refurbishments and other operations, Spaceflight Now reported Monday. KSC officials stated in an environmental assessment that the Hawthorne, Calif.-based firm’s expansion would include sites for booster and fairing processing, storage, launch and landing control, flown […] More
General Atomics‘ electromagnetic systems business has concluded pre-flight and full system tests of a satellite built to host multiple technology payloads for on-orbit demonstration. The company said Monday its Orbital Test Bed will launch onboard the SpaceX-built Falcon Heavy rocket as part of the U.S. Air Force‘s Space Technology Program. OTB will carry a deep-space atomic clock that was produced […] More
General Atomics has announced its electromagnetic systems business will showcase a new spacecraft model designed to host technology payloads for demonstration. The company said Wednesday GA-EMS will exhibit the Orbital Test Bed along with other satellite and space system offerings at the 34th Space Symposium scheduled to take place in Colorado Springs, Colorado, from April 15 to 19. “Our […] More
SpaceX has received a launch license from the Federal Aviation Administration for the maiden flight of its Falcon Heavy rocket that is set to take off Tuesday, Feb. 6, SpaceX reported Saturday. Falcon Heavy will lift off from launch complex 39a at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida and will carry as a payload a Tesla […] More
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has said the company aims to launch a heavy-lift variant of its Falcon rocket at NASA‘s Kennedy Space Center in Florida by Feb. 6, Spaceflight Now reported Sunday. The report noted SpaceX set a three-hour window beginning at 1:30 p.m. Eastern time for the Falcon Heavy liftoff from launch pad 39A. Falcon Heavy will carry a used Tesla-built Roadster sports […] More
SpaceX on Wednesday carried out the first static fire test of its Falcon Heavy rocket at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in preparation for its initial launch that CEO Elon Musk said could occur in a “week or so,†Spaceflight Now reported Wednesday. The company conducted a hold-down firing test of the rocket’s 27 Merlin 1D main engines […] More
NASA is expected to proceed Tuesday with its live television coverage of a spacewalk on the International Space Station after Congress passed a three-week stopgap bill to end a government shutdown that went into effect Saturday, Spaceflight Now reported Monday. Astronauts Scott Tingle and Mark Vande Hei are scheduled to do a spacewalk Tuesday to […] More