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Launch of NASA’s Psyche asteroid mission slips a week due to spacecraft issue

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Artist’s illustration of the Psyche spacecraft and its destination. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The launch of NASA’s Psyche asteroid mission is being delayed a week due to an issue with the spacecraft, according to multiple sources. Liftoff on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket is now scheduled for no earlier than Oct. 12. The billion-dollar mission had been …

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Falcon Heavy launches heaviest commercial communications satellite yet

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Falcon Heavy streaks towards orbit in this long exposure as the side boosters perform entry and landing burns before touching down at Cape Canaveral. Image: Michael Cain/Spaceflight Now. SpaceX launched the world’s heaviest commercial communications satellite atop a Falcon Heavy rocket on Friday. The triple-core rocket lifted off from Kennedy Space Center’s pad 39A with …

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Live Coverage: SpaceX Falcon Heavy set to launch heaviest commercial communications satellite ever

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Falcon Heavy stands on the launch pad early this morning as a Falcon 9 lifts off from pad 40 on a Starlink delivery mission. Image: SpaceX. SpaceX will make another attempt Friday to launch the world’s heaviest commercial communications satellite atop a Falcon Heavy rocket after technical problems halted a countdown on Wednesday. Liftoff from …

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SpaceX to try again for a record-breaking double-launch

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Falcon Heavy (left) and Falcon 9 missions could launch within 44 minutes of each other. Images: SpaceX/Spaceflight Now SpaceX could break the record for the shortest time between Cape Canaveral launches Thursday night if it can launch a Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy in quick succession. But achieving that assumes the weather cooperates and any …

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Falcon Heavy on the pad for largest commercial communications satellite launch yet

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Falcon Heavy stands ready to launch the heaviest commercial communications satellite ever, the Jupiter 3/EchoStar 24 satellite. Image: SpaceX. SpaceX rolled a Falcon Heavy to the launch pad early Wednesday morning ahead of its planned launch tonight at 11:04 p.m. EDT (0304 UTC) with the Jupiter 3/EchoStar 24 satellite, the heaviest commercial communications satellite ever …

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SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy hits bullseye with ascent to near-geosynchronous orbit

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SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket lifts off from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Credit: SpaceX A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket thundered into the sky over Florida’s Space Coast Sunday night and deployed a sophisticated internet satellite for Viasat into a circular orbit more than 20,000 miles over the equator, delivering for a competitor to …

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Viasat seeks replacement for Ariane 6 for launch of third ViaSat 3 satellite

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A full-scale test model of an Ariane 6 rocket stands on its launch pad in French Guiana last year. Credit:ESA-Manuel Pedoussaut While preparing for launch of its first ViaSat 3 internet satellite on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket this week, Viasat is considering bids from commercial launch service providers to carry an identical satellite into …

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Watch live: SpaceX attempting two Friday evening launches from Cape Canaveral

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Watch a replay of our live coverage of the countdown and launch two SpaceX rockets — a Falcon 9 and a Falcon Heavy — less than two hours apart on Friday, April 28. Follow us on Twitter. Weather permitting, SpaceX will go for a launch doubleheader Friday with two missions set for liftoff from Florida’s Space …

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SpaceX clears Falcon Heavy for liftoff after launch pad lightning strike

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Lightning strikes Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center on Thursday night, with a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket awaiting liftoff. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX says engineers completed checks of the Falcon Heavy rocket, its satellite payloads, and ground systems at the Kennedy Space Center after a lightning strike on the launch pad’s tower Thursday night, part …

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Falcon Heavy rocket rolls back to launch pad after engine swap

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SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket for the ViaSat 3 Americas mission inside the hangar at Launch Complex 39A. The three Falcon Heavy boosters will be powered by 27 kerosene-fueled Merlin engines. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX rolled a Falcon Heavy rocket back to its launch pad in Florida Tuesday night for liftoff Wednesday with a high-power Viasat broadband …

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