SpaceX postponed for 24 hours a secretive US military launch Sunday morning after the company detected a ‘sensor issue’ with the rocket less than a minute before the scheduled liftoff, a spokesman said. The launch was pushed to Monday morning at Cape Canaveral, Florida – just 52 seconds before liftoff was set to occur. ‘Out … Read more
SpaceX on Thursday successfully launched a communications satellite into space from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The company’s Falcon 9 rocket blasted off at 2 am (0600 GMT) carrying the EchoStar XXIII, a commercial communications satellite for EchoStar Corporation. The satellite will be place in orbit more that 35,000 kilometers above the earth and … Read more
SpaceX will have to wait at least another day to launch from NASA’s historic moon pad. The unmanned Falcon rocket remains at Launch Complex 39A, waiting to soar on a space station delivery mission. It’s the same pad where Americans flew to the moon almost a half-century ago, and where the shuttle program ended in … Read more