For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM PORTCANAVERAL/CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL – Following the oft weather delayed but nevertheless spectacular SpaceX launch of their next batch of their 60 Starlink satellites into sunny skies on a used Falcon 9 rocket on Wednesday morning, Jan. 29, the special SpaceX naval fleet team was able to successfully recover both halves of the payload
CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL – SpaceX continues on a roll with their 3rd Falcon 9 launch in the month of January now set for liftoff Monday morning Jan. 27 with the next batch of 60 Starlink satellites enlarging their constellation of broadband internet satellites – but with a very iffy weather outlook along the Florida Space Coast. The
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – The SpaceX Crew Dragon is raised erect and poised for liftoff on the In Flight Abort (IFA) demonstration test on Saturday morning, Jan. 18 said NASA and SpaceX officials at the pre-test briefing today, Jan. 17 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The IFA test flight test is planned to
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM PORT CANAVERAL/CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL – It was a evenly mixed bag of results for the SpaceX crane crews working on the landing legs of the 4 time recycled SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage booster from the Starlink 2 mission, as they were only able to successfully retract two while the other two were
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM PORT CANAVERAL/CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL – Just about 22 hours after sailing back into Port Canaveral yesterday afternoon, Thursday, Jan. 9 the second quadruply launched & landed SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage booster from the Starlink 2 mission was craned off the “Of Course I Still Love You” (OCISLY) droneship mid-afternoon Friday, Jan. 10
SpaceX Falcon 9 streaks to orbit from Space Launch Complex-40 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL on 3rd Starlink mission after launch Jan. 6, 2020 at 9:19 p.m. EST. The 1st stage booster is only the second one to launch 4 times. ULA Delta IV rocket stands inside launch tower at right at Complex 37. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/spaceupclose.com For
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM TITUSVILLE, FL- Under gloomy Florida Space Coast skies and shortly before drenching showers rolled in SpaceX engineers completed a noontime static fire test of their recycled Falcon 9 rocket today Saturday, Jan. 4 on Cape Canaveral and are now targeting Monday evening Jan. 6 for launch of the third batch of 60 SpaceX built and owned
For Spaceupclose.com and RocketSTEM MICHOUD ASSEMBLY FACILITY, LA/CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – The NASA, Boeing and Aerojet Rocketdyne team is now in the final stages of preparing the first completed Space Launch System (SLS) rocket core stage for the Artemis 1 Moon mission for shipment via the Pegasus barge from NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Louisiana to NASA’s Stennis
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER/CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL – Starliner stunned during the successful sunrise launch of Boeing’s astronaut space taxi aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket Friday, Dec 20 – marking the final launch of 2019 from the Cape on Florida’s Space Coast. Unfortunately the commercial capsule suffered a serious mishap that
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FIRCE STATION, FL – A twice recycled SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket put on a stunning sky show at dinnertime tonight, Monday Dec. 16, streaking to space and darting in and out of clouds that passed over the Cape in the final moments before liftoff from the Florida Space Coast to successfully deliver the