07 February 2018
Musk sets pace in the race to Mars
... Press Centre near the giant countdown clock the Falcon Heavy cut an imposing figure across the Cape Canaveral landscape as it awaited lift-off after a tense series of delays due to strong winds high in the atmosphere. The...
04 August 2018
First NASA Commercial Crew revealed
... and the Saturn 5 moon rockets. Boeing on the other hand will launch from pad 41 at the nearby Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Both have yet to undergo uncrewed test flights before proceeding with astronauts onboard...
04 December 2018
SpaceX sets two new highs in its latest launch
... mission to the International Space Station tomorrow (5 December) at around 1.16pm ET/18.16 GMT from the Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
01 February 2019
First private spacecraft gearing up for Moon landing
....” Israels’ first Moon lander has already made its way to Florida where it will launch from the Cape Canaveral site in mid-February. After blast off, the spacecraft will orbit Earth three times before entering...
24 May 2019
SpaceX launches first 60 satellites of its Starlink mega-constellation
... within the nose cone of a Falcon 9 rocket that had blasted off from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 22:30 local time (02:30 GMT, Friday). An hour later, the now thrice-used rocket began...
26 June 2019
LightSail 2 gets ready to make its debut in space
Yesterday, a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket successfully launched NASA’s STP-2 mission from Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying with it a whole raft of technology demonstrations that will one day aid in smarter spacecraft design ...
