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There are several launches planned for this week including a Falcon 9 which will be helping a Dragon capsule into orbit so that it can deliver cargo to the International space station.
If you would like to see more articles like this please support our coverage of the space program by becoming a Spaceflight Now Member. If everyone who enjoys our website helps fund it, we can expand and improve our coverage further. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket fires off pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on April 23 with four astronauts aboard a Crew Dragon spacecraft. Credit: SpaceX More than three-quarters of the launches from Florida’s Space Coast so far this year have deployed SpaceX’s Starlink internet satellites, but the focus will shift to other customers in June. Five rocket ...
Officials say they believe lasers will enable 10 to 100 times more data to be transmitted back to Earth than the current radio frequency systems.
View Comments Note: We've brought you a front-row seat to rocket launches from Florida since 1966. Journalism like our space coverage takes time and resources. Please consider a subscription. --- A nearly 200-foot Atlas V rocket soared from its Florida pad on Tuesday, taking the Space Force's newest satellite designed to detect ballistic missile launches back on Earth. Powered by one main engine and two strap-on solid rocket boosters, the United Launch Alliance rocket vaulted off Cape Canaveral Space Force Station's Launch Complex 41 at 1:37 p.m., just six minutes after the window opened. UL...
A ULA Atlas V rocket launches the fifth Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit on May 18, 2021. Photo: ULA United Launch Alliance (ULA) successfully launched a missile warning satellite called the Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (SBIRS GEO) Flight 5 on Tuesday for the U.S. Space Force. A ULA Atlas V rocket in the 421 configuration took off at 1:37 p.m. ET from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Signal acquisition was confirmed approximately 36 minutes after the satellite’s launch, Lockheed Martin reported. SBIRS...