For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM JETTY PARK/PORT CANAVERAL, FL – Relativity Space, a California-based New Space startup aborted the first launch attempt of their first 3D printed Terran 1 rocket Wednesday afternoon, March 8, about 1 minute before liftoff from Florida’s Space Coast – after a thermal control technical issue with Liquid Oxygen (LOX) propellant in the second stage could not
CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – California-based Relativity Space, a New Space startup, is targeting Wednesday afternoon, March 8, for launch of the world’s first almost entirely 3D printed rocket – namely the maiden Terran 1 from Florida’s Space Coast. The weather looks to be outstanding Liftoff of Terran 1 is targeted for a 3 hour long launch window that opens at
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – Finally and after overcoming a last minute technical issue with the flow of ignition fluid into the rocket engines that scrubbed Mondays launch attempt, the four person multinational team of US, Russian and UAE astronauts blasted off on the NASA SpaceX Crew-6 mission from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida –
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – Although NASA’s Crew-6 astronauts didn’t launch to the International Space Station early Monday morning Feb. 27 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center due to a technical glitch with the flow of critical igniter fluids, SpaceX did manage a splendid sunset launch of another Falcon 9 rocket from a nearby pad on Cape
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – A last minute technical issue with the flow of ignition fluid into the rocket engines scrubbed the liftoff of the four person multinational team of NASA Crew-6 mission spaceflyers at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida – under ideal weather conditions in the wee hours of Monday, Feb. 27. Liftoff of
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – The four person multinational team of NASA Crew-6 mission spaceflyers are in the final phases of training and preparations at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida prior to their launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon spacecraft now targeting dead of night liftoff overnight Monday, Feb. 27 – and
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – The four-person multinational team of NASA Crew-6 mission spaceflyers arrived at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida around lunchtime Tuesday, Feb. 21, to complete final training and preparations prior to their launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon spacecraft now delayed to overnight Monday, Feb. 27 and bound for
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM TITUSVILLE, FL – Huge throngs of thrilled spectators crowded around the Space Coast viewing areas Friday night, Feb. 17, to witness a beautiful SpaceX Falcon 9 liftoff of a six-ton global mobile communications relay from Florida’s Space Coast for Inmarsat – one of the worlds leading connectivity companies The Inmarsat 6 F2 (I6 F2) satellite was
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM TITUSVILLE, FL – Just past midnight, SpaceX lofted another 55 Starlink high speed broadband internet satellites to low Earth orbit while accomplishing the fastest turnaround between missions – five days and three hours – from the same pad! Namely complex 40 on Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, and soaring away again on a southeasterly
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM PORT CANAVERAL, FL – A flock of picturesque pelicans were on patrol as another rather sooty recovered SpaceX Falcon 9 booster sailed into Port Canaveral over the weekend and was processed by technicians for turnaround and eventual recycling for another technologically remarkable and cost savings launch from Florida’s Space Coast in the not-to-distant future. The 5x flown