Merlin 1-D Vacuum Engine Glows as it Drives Second Stage: Image Credit SpaceX Lit by the glow of 9 Merlin 1-D engines generating 1.3 million lbs. of sea level thrust, a SpaceX Falcon 9 V1.1 lifted off from Cape Canaveral in the early hours of Sunday morning, carrying with it the AsiaSat 6 communications satellite. […]
AsiaSat 8 Streaks into the Night Sky: Image Credit: SpaceX “Fly By Night Away from Here!” belted out Rush’s Geddy Lee, and SpaceX is hoping its Falcon 9 booster will do just that on a launch scheduled for 50 minutes after midnight out of Cape Canaveral’s SLC-40. After a 10 day interlude to check for […]
Update: According to the Air Force, SpaceX has moved the AsiaSat launch date to the same time on Sunday morning. Neither SpaceX or AsiaSat has posted anything regarding the launch. Original story Florida Today reports that SpaceX is apparently targeting a 12:50 AM EDT launch for the AsiaSat 6 comsat headed to geostationary transfer orbit. […]
A statement from Elon Musk posted on the SpaceX website yesterday sheds a little more light on Friday’s test accident in Texas, while suggesting that delay of the AsiaSat 6 launch was due to an abundance of caution: SpaceX has decided to postpone tomorrow’s flight of AsiaSat 6. We are not aware of any issue […]
Back to the Hangar/ Image Credit SpaceX SpaceX has scrubbed the launch of AsiaSat 6, which had been scheduled for 12:50 AM EDT tonight. Although no statement has been forthcoming as to the cause of the scrub, the use of the word “indefinitely” to describe the delay suggests it may be tied last Friday’s Falcon […]
AsiaSat 8 Counts on August 5: Image Credit SpaceX After slipping the launch of AsiaSat 6 by 24 hours to further examine data from Friday’s F-9R test mishap in Texas, SpaceX appears to be counting down to a liftoff scheduled to take place at 12:50 AM EDT on Wednesday. Assuming the schedule holds, this flight […]
(Note: this article has been edited to correct a previous version which incorrectly identified the next NASA mission as CRS-5. It will be CRS-4.) SpaceX has moved the impending launch of the AsiaSat 6 satellite from Cape Canaveral back one day, from Tuesday to Wednesday. The precautionary move comes in the wake of Friday’s F9R […]
Asiasat 8 Streaks Into the Sky, Credit: SpaceX The news has been more than just lawsuits and fund-raising disputes for SpaceX this week. As SpaceX enters the last week of August, the company is moving ahead on several key fronts, beginning with the announcement of a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) from the FAA […]
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