SpaceX launch News
Axiom-4 mission with Shubhanshu Shukla faced second delay due to Falcon 9 LOx leak. New ISS launch date pending.
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Recently, Space X, the company of Elon Musk, the world's richest person who bought Twitter, has achieved another big success in space. The company managed to bring 4 passengers on the International Space Station to Earth safely.
It was the first time a rocket streaked toward orbit with an all-amateur crew, no professional astronauts. The Dragon capsule's two men and two women are looking to spend three days circling the world from an unusually high orbit, 100 miles (160 kilometers) higher than the International Space Station, before splashing down off the Florida coast this weekend.
The Falcon Heavy is a reusable super heavy-lift launch vehicle.
The US government shutdown has left upcoming launches from NASA and space transport services company SpaceX in limbo.
Last week, SpaceX finally declared that both the rocket and the payload were "healthy" and ready for launch.
SpaceX has now managed to return 20 of its rocket boosters after launch, whether on land or on a floating ocean platform, as part of its effort to re-use instead of jettison costly rocket components.
The launch, a mission whose nature — and the agency behind it — is a mystery, was slated to lift off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center on Friday between 8:00 pm and 10:00 pm EST.
It was the third time SpaceX has used a "flight-proven" first stage on a mission.
The satellite is designed to last for five years, and will orbit the Earth once every 100 minutes.
No details were made public about the payload, known only as NROL-76, which was first announced last year.
Due to a sensor issue, SpaceX on Sunday has postponed the launch of a secretive US governmnent payload untill Monday.
SpaceX in 2014 filed suit against the US Air Force, saying it unfairly awarded billions of dollars to a single company for national security launches.
The goal of the launch, scheduled for 6:27 pm (2227 GMT) from Cape Canaveral, Florida, is to send a communications satellite for Luxembourg-based company SES into a distant orbit.
Headquartered in Englewood, Colorado, and conducting business around the globe, EchoStar Corporation is global provider of satellite communication solutions.
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket was to deliver EchoStar XXIII, a commercial communications satellite for EchoStar Corporation, to a geostationary transfer orbit (GTO).
The launch of the Dragon cargo ship is scheduled for 10:01 am (1501 GMT) from Cape Canaveral`s launchpad 39A, which was built and used for the US space agency`s pioneering missions to the Moon in the 1960s and 1970s.
The SpaceX Dragon resupply ship is targeted to liftoff atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center.
The new launch pad in question is at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, located north of Cape Canaveral's, which it's still under repair at the moment.
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