A Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Kennedy Space Center at 7:38 p.m. Wednesday, July 5, 2017 – the company's third attempt after two previous technical scrubs.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched from Kennedy Space Center on Friday, June 23, 2017 with the BulgariaSat-1 communications satellite. The first stage then landed on a drone ship off the coast of Florida.
SpaceX successfully launched its Falcon 9 rocket on a mission to the International Space Station and landed the first stage at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station shortly after on Saturday, June 3, 2017.
SpaceX's Falcon 9 launch included a 13,500-pound satellite that's close to the size of a double-decker bus. USA TODAY
SpaceX launched a classified National Reconnaissance Office payload from Kennedy Space Center Monday morning and successfully landed the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket.
An Atlas V rocket blasts off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Tuesday, April 18, 2017 with a Cygnus spacecraft for the International Space Station.
In a historic first for the company and the industry, SpaceX launched and landed a "flight proven," or refurbished, Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center.
A Delta IV rocket carrying the military's WGS-9 satellite blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Saturday, March 18, 2017.
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket blasts off from Kennedy Space Center with the EchoStar 23 communications satellite on Thursday, March 16, 2017.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully blasted off from Kennedy Space Center's historic pad 39A on Sunday, Feb. 19, 2017. The first stage returned for a successful landing in Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
An Atlas V rocket blasts off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station with the SBIRS missile detection satellite on Friday, Jan. 20, 2017.
If schedules hold, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is likely to end the Eastern Range's launch hiatus next month.
SpaceX and NASA are targeting no earlier than August 14 for the launch of a Dragon spacecraft packed with supplies and cargo for the International Space Station. Kennedy Space Center's pad 39A will play host to the launch attempt.
A landing of the rocket's first stage at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Landing Zone 1 is expected shortly after liftoff.
SpaceX’s twelfth mission under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services contract, labeled CRS-12, will take thousands of pounds of cargo and several science experiments to astronauts and cosmonauts on the station. Among them, the Cosmic Ray Energetics and Mass, or CREAM, experiment will attempt to understand the makeup of cosmic rays, or streams of energy from outer space.
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August has seen a shifting launch schedule – the launch of NASA's newest Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, known as TDRS-M, was delayed due to a crane operation causing damage to an antenna in mid July. Originally scheduled for August 3, that launch was recently pushed back to August 20. Teams at Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville were expected to replace the antenna soon, according to a NASA official.
The last launch from the Eastern Range – a SpaceX Falcon 9 with the Intelsat 35e communications satellite – occurred on July 5. At least a portion of the nearly month-and-a-half gap between launches can be attributed to routine maintenance at Eastern Range launch sites.
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