22 November 2021
NASA's asteroid impact mission due to launch Wednesday
...on a collision path with Earth. Blasting off on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California at 1:20 am ET (06:20 ... to the adapter that stacks on top of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and a day before launch, the rocket will...
15 April 2018
TESS, NASA's planet-finding mission launches today!
... radiation impact to a minimum. To boldly go where no observatory has gone before (in orbit), TESS will be hitching a lift on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and so far, the run up to the launch has been textbook. Providing the weather cooperates, it should...
13 July 2018
Israel plan to launch historic Moon mission later this year
... the government-owned corporation Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), the parties said they will use a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to deliver their robotic lander to the Moon following a launch scheduled for December from Cape Canaveral...
01 March 2019
Crew Dragon gets ready for first liftoff
... according to plan, then by this time tomorrow, a Crew Dragon test capsule will be launched on the end of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket towards the International Space Station for the first time. Weather permitting, liftoff is planned for...
24 May 2019
SpaceX launches first 60 satellites of its Starlink mega-constellation
... the heaviest payload that SpaceX has ever launched, lifted off from 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...
13 November 2020
NASA's SpaceX Crew-1 mission gets ready for launch tomorrow
... forward for the mission after certifying the whole launch system for human spaceflight, including the Falcon 9 rocket and associated ground systems, on Tuesday, making Elon Musk’s Crew Dragon the first commercial spacecraft...
