That statement, once reflective of mainstream aerospace thinking, has now been eclipsed by SpaceX’s relentless pace of innovation and iteration. Not only has the Falcon 9 booster surpassed 9 launches ...

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The Falcon 9 illuminated darkened Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 12 a.m. EDT, then ascended to the southeast and ...

The video below shows the safe landing, which paves the way for the booster’s 28th flight. Falcon 9 lands on the Just Read the Instructions droneship, completing the first 27th launch and ...

SpaceX announced a Falcon 9 launch of the NROL-57 mission on Thursday ... 9 booster assigned to this mission will return to land on Landing Zone 4 at Vandenberg Space Force Base which may cause ...

SpaceX is planning to launch ... landing sites play a role in timing. Being a Starlink launch, no Central Florida sonic booms will be heard. Eight-and-half-minutes after liftoff, the Falcon 9 ...

The booster performed a landing burn using three of its nine ... amongst SpaceX's growing megaconstellation. The launch of a new Falcon 9 rocket has become a relatively rare occurrence as SpaceX ...

A Falcon 9 launch ... the twelfth launch of the year for Space X from the West Coast. The rocket carried 27 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit with the first-stage booster landing on the ...

Their long-awaited return marks ... Following the launch, Falcon 9’s first stage successfully completed its descent and made a precise landing at SpaceX’s Landing Zone 1 at Cape Canaveral ...