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by Sandra Erwin — April 17, 2022 A SpaceX Falcon 9 carrying NROL-85 lifted off from Space Launch Complex 4 at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, at 9:13 a.m. Eastern. Credit: SpaceX webcast NROL-85 was the 148th launch of the Falcon 9 and the rocket’s 14th mission of 2022 WASHINGTON…

By NASA April 17, 2022 The SpaceX Crew-4 Dragon arrives at Launch Pad 39A hangar. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX’s brand-new Dragon spacecraft – named “Freedom” by the Crew-4 astronauts – arrived at Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A on April 16, 2022, after making the journey from SpaceX’s processing facility at…

Home News Spaceflight SpaceX will launch a spy satellite for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) on Sunday morning (April 17), and you can watch the liftoff live. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket topped with the NROL-85 spacecraft is scheduled to lift off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California…

SpaceX raised a Falcon 9 rocket vertical Saturday at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California after a two-day delay caused by technical and weather problems. The rocket will carry a classified payload into orbit for the National Reconnaissance Office. Liftoff is set for 6:13 a.m. EDT (9:13 a.m. EDT; 1313…

Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California with the NROL-85 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter. SpaceX Webcast SpaceX Mission Audio Read…

EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated with launch delay to Saturday, April 16. Updated again with launch delay to Sunday, April 17. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket sits horizontal Thursday at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Credit: Brian Sandoval / Spaceflight Now SpaceX plans to launch a Falcon 9 rocket from California’s Central…

It was a classic Elon Musk move: announce a new offering that would radically transform the technology landscape, flog it onstage and in social media posts, only for it to turn out that the offering in question was nowhere close to market-ready. Only this time, it wasn’t a self-driving taxi…

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Home News Spaceflight Crew-4 astronauts Jessica Watkins, Bob Hines, Kjell Lindgren and Samantha Cristoforetti on the Crew Dragon "Freedom." (Image credit: SpaceX) The four astronauts of SpaceX's Crew-4 mission to the International Space Station have had their launch pushed back again, to April 23. SpaceX and NASA chose that date…

by Jason Rainbow — April 11, 2022 SpaceX launched four batches of Starlink satellites across four separate missions in May. Credit: SpaceX After revolutionizing the launch industry through vertical integration, SpaceX hopes to do the same for satellite broadband with its Starlink megaconstellation. Starlink’s go-it-alone approach contrasts with OneWeb and…