News Archive / Tagged: Falcon Heavy
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Video: SpaceFlight Insider’s Space Bulletin for April 19, 2019
Derek RichardsonApril 19th, 2019In this week's Space Bulletin, the world's largest aircraft takes flight while the NG-11 Cygnus spacecraft launches to and berths with the ISS.
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Remains of Falcon Heavy center core returned to port
Derek RichardsonApril 18th, 2019A week after launching, what remains of the Falcon Heavy center core that toppled over because of rough seas has been returned to port.
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Video: Countdown to history – Falcon Heavy soars with Arabsat-6A!
Jason RhianApril 16th, 2019KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- SpaceX launched the second of the company's Falcon Heavy rockets with the 13,230 lbs Arabsat-6A satellite as its payload on Thursday, April 11, 2019 at 6:35 p.m. ET (22:35 GMT). The historic mission safely sent its payload on its way to geostationary orbit and also saw three of the rocket's first stage cores successfully touch back down for reuse.
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No booster for you! Falcon Heavy core stage topples over in rough seas
Jason RhianApril 15th, 2019A tweet made by Tim "The Everyday Astronaut" Dodd reported that the core booster of the Falcon Heavy rocket that launched April 11 has been lost to the sea.
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Gallery: Falcon Heavy with Arabsat-6A – Hard as thunder, light as rain
Jason RhianApril 11th, 2019KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — One, two, three. Each of these numbers denoted major milestone achieved by SpaceX with the flight of the Arabsat-6A mission on one of the company's Falcon Heavy rockets.
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3 landings, 1 commercial payload – SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy makes history – again
Derek RichardsonApril 11th, 2019KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — After a wait of more than a year, SpaceX’s massive Falcon Heavy rocket has finally begun launching commercial payloads.SpaceX also managed to mark another (or was it three?) notch in its milestone list with today's flight.
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High winds ground Falcon Heavy
Derek RichardsonApril 10th, 2019Higher than acceptable upper level winds prompt mission managers at SpaceX to postpone the launch of the company's Falcon Heavy rocket.
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Video: SpaceX raises the Heavy
Jason RhianApril 10th, 2019KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- Launch preparations continued for the second flight of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket. Part of those efforts included raising the 730-foot-tall rocket into the vertical position.
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2nd Falcon Heavy launch rescheduled for Wednesday
Jason RhianApril 9th, 2019KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- The second launch of a Falcon Heavy rocket, which had been slated to lift off today, has been rescheduled. The cause of this readjustment to the mission's time table is one all too familiar to launch service providers working on the Space Coast.
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UPDATE: SpaceX’s 2nd Falcon Heavy to launch Arabsat-6A
Patrick AttwellApril 8th, 2019SpaceX is poised to conduct the first commercial launch of its Falcon Heavy rocket with the Arabsat-6A mission as early as this week.
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Launch date of 2nd Falcon Heavy flight pushed back
Jason RhianApril 5th, 2019The first flight of a Falcon Heavy rocket with a commercial payload will have to wait a little while longer before lifting off from Kennedy Space Center.
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NASA studying option to fly Orion EM-1 on commercial rockets
Derek RichardsonMarch 14th, 2019The head of NASA told senators the first SLS flight would again be delayed and the agency is “considering all options” to get the program back on track.
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SpaceX continued to set records in 2018
Curt GodwinDecember 31st, 2018With 2017 seeing SpaceX set a company record of 18 launches in a single year, the California-based launch provider looked to 2018 to build on that success.
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Falcon Heavy attracts customers looking to capitalize on rocket’s capabilities
Curt GodwinOctober 31st, 2018The iconic quote attributed to 1989's Field of Dreams can also be applied to SpaceX and their Falcon Heavy rocket as well. While the company has yet to follow-up on the vehicle's maiden flight on February 6, 2018, it seems the success of that mission has attracted customers to the new rocket.
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Opinion: Musk marijuana story much ado about nothing
Jason RhianSeptember 9th, 2018Elon Musk smoked pot and drank whiskey in California. The story was painted as if the event was some bizarre Matthew McConaughey moment where Musk was banging on a bongo drum and smoking weed. After watching the 2.5-hour Joe Rogan interview, one is left with the impression that some in the media must be in desperate need of views.
