From Cocoa Beach, spectators briefly watched the orange glow of a SpaceX Falcon 9 soaring skyward near sundown Monday for roughly 15 seconds before the rocket slipped behind layers of low-lying clouds. The Falcon 9 delivered another payload of 23 Starlink broadband satellites into orbit after the 7:42 p.m. EDT dusk liftoff from Launch Complex […]
After a series of storm cells packing lightning swept past the Cape — triggering a three-hour, 40-minute launch delay — SpaceX finally launched a Falcon 9 rocket near the tail end of the mission’s launch window Saturday night from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The Falcon 9 lifted off from pad 39A in the pre-midnight darkness […]
A SpaceX Starlink launch lit up skies across the U.S. West Coast on Monday evening (March 18), leaving a dazzling trail seen for hundreds of miles. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base on California’s central coast Monday at 10:28 p.m. EDT (7:28 p.m. local time; 0228 GMT on March […]
March 13 (UPI) — SpaceX scrubbed its launch of 23 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit just two minutes before lift-off Wednesday night, announcing it would target Thursday instead. “Standing down from tonight’s Falcon 9 launch of Starlink,” SpaceX announced at 10 p.m. EDT in a post on X. The satellites were loaded atop the Falcon […]
SpaceX is set to tie its rocket-reuse record tonight (March 13). A Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to launch 23 of SpaceX’s Starlink internet satellites to orbit from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida tonight, during a four-hour window that opens at 7:29 p.m. EDT (2329 GMT). It will be the 19th liftoff for this […]
By El Tayeb Siddig OMDURMAN, Sudan (Reuters) – Some Sudanese residents cut off from mobile networks for weeks due to war between rival military factions are using Starlink satellite connections to access the internet, as regular coverage started to return to other parts of the country. The mobile blackout that began in early February has […]
SpaceX launched its Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral on Sunday. Update: SpaceX said it successfully launched its Falcon 9 rocket carrying 23 Starlink satellites Sunday night. Liftoff from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station happened at 7:05 p.m. READ: 2024 Academy Awards: ‘Oppenheimer’ dominates with 7 Oscars The first stage booster of the rocket then […]
SpaceX launched 23 of its Starlink internet satellites from Florida on Sunday (March 10). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Starlink spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 7:05 p.m. EDT (2305 GMT). Related: Starlink satellite train: How to see and track it in the night sky The first stage of a […]
SpaceX will launch 23 more of its Starlink internet satellites from California tonight (March 10), in the second leg of a planned spaceflight doubleheader. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Starlink spacecraft is scheduled to lift off from Vandenberg Space Force Base during a 3.5-hour window that opens tonight at 10:13 p.m. EDT (0213 GMT […]
Kicking off a Florida-California SpaceX scheduled launch doubleheader, a Falcon 9 rocket vaulted off the pad Sunday night on another Starlink satellite mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The 230-foot rocket lifted off at 7:05 p.m. EDT from Launch Complex 40, deploying 23 more Starlink internet-beaming satellites into low-Earth orbit. Fifty-five minutes before liftoff, […]
SpaceX is keeping its rapid launch cadence going. The company launched yet another batch of 23 Starlink internet satellites at 6:56 p.m. ET (2356 GMT) on Monday (March 4) from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Some eight minutes after liftoff, the flight’s booster returned to the planet, […]
The Falcon 9 rocket’s nine Merlin engines ignited amid thick fog shrouding Cape Canaveral — producing what appeared to be an ascending yellow-orange sun that filled the screen during SpaceX’s heavily obscured launch video broadcast. SpaceX’s Starlink 6-41 mission lifted off in a cloak of sea fog at 6:56 p.m. EST Monday from Launch Complex […]