SpaceX’s powerful Falcon Heavy rocket will fly again before the end of the year, if all goes according to plan. SpaceX is now targeting Dec. 28 for the launch of the U.S. Space Force’s X-37B space plane, which will fly atop a Falcon Heavy from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in […]
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We’ll have to wait at least one more day to see SpaceX’s powerful Falcon Heavy rocket take to the skies again. The brawny Falcon Heavy had been scheduled to launch the U.S. Space Force’s robotic X-37B space plane from Florida on Monday night (Dec. 11), a liftoff known as USSF-52. […]
SpaceX set up for a sky-lighting Florida doubleheader Monday, prepping a powerful Falcon Heavy rocket for launch to put an unpiloted X-37B spaceplane into orbit for the U.S. Space Force with a workhorse Falcon 9 following a few hours later carrying 23 Starlink internet satellites. But trouble with ground equipment […]
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket is poised to launch the X-37B space plane for the U.S. Space Force on tonight (Dec. 11) after a one-day delay due to weather, and you can likely watch the action live. Liftoff of the Falcon Heavy is scheduled to occur from Launch Complex-39A at […]
Dec 10 — The U.S. military’s secretive X-37B spaceplane which was poised for launch on Sunday on the robot craft’s seventh mission to orbit atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket has been delayed to Monday, SpaceX said on Sunday. “SpaceX is targeting Monday, December 11 at 8:14 p.m. ET for […]
WASHINGTON — The seventh mission of the reusable U.S. Air Force X-37B spaceplane is scheduled to launch Dec. 7 on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The spaceplane is built by Boeing and operated by the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office and the U.S. Space Force. […]
Update for 10:30 am ET: NASA’s Psyche asteroid mission successfully launched into space atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket at 10:19 a.m. EDT on Oct. 13, lifting off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Read our wrap story here. SpaceX’s powerful Falcon Heavy rocket will send NASA’s Psyche asteroid […]
SpaceX’s first Falcon Heavy mission for NASA did not disappoint. The Falcon Heavy — the second-most powerful rocket currently in operation, after NASA’s Space Launch System — launched the agency’s Psyche asteroid mission from Kennedy Space Center in Florida this morning (Oct. 13). It was the eighth liftoff overall for […]