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 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 […]
Image credit: SpaceX Beginning the first of a series of closely packed launches to round out the second half of 2014, a SpaceX Falcon 9 booster lifted off from Cape Canaveral at 4:00 am EDT this morning, carrying the AsiaSat 8 comsat to geostationary transfer orbit. For a while it looked like this launch might […]
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