21 December 2015
SpaceX’s postponed rocket launch due for lift off today
...to launch at 8:33 pm ET time Monday (0133 GMT Tuesday) from Cape Canaveral, Florida, said the California-based company. One key aim of SpaceX’s ... when just over two minutes after launching from Cape Canaveral, its Falcon 9 rocket exploded with a blast...
07 November 2016
Solid oxygen to blame for SpaceX explosion
..., offered details as to why the company’s Falcon 9 rocket exploded during a static fire test on the 1st September in Cape Canaveral and the culprit is solid oxygen. SpaceX has achieved many successes this year, however two months...
15 January 2020
Rising sea levels pose threat to KSC
... Origin's Henderson envisions a time when there will be thousands of spaceports across the world and that, ultimately, Cape Canaveral may prove to have been just a starting point for human space exploration. “Today we’re constrained to coastal areas...
13 August 2021
Stuck valves keep Starliner grounded, August flight now unlikely
... teams have been able to power on Starliner, which is currently housed in the Vertical Integration Facility (VIF) at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, allowing the vehicle to receive commands. With direct access to the spacecraft for...
29 March 2018
NASA Kennedy Space Center
... place. Following a short textual introduction, the book’s seven chapters cover the roots of NASA’s rocket programme at Cape Canaveral and the various phases of manned space exploration up to the Shuttle and the ISS. A final chapter looks...
26 February 2018
Abandoned in Place – Preserving America’s Space History
... from a phrase stencilled on structures at deactivated facilities at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station that were “too solid for any known... equipment; of course most of the metal gantries on the Cape were removed years ago. The author – an academic in...
