SpaceX's three-core Falcon Heavy flagship that ... the company's next-generation Block 5 boosters, but this time there won't be a Tesla Roadster secured in the payload fairing – the Air Force ...

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SpaceX founder Elon Musk told reporters in a Thursday conference call the "block 5 ... Falcon 9 and ground station infrastructure. Including February's maiden flight of SpaceX's three-core Falcon ...

Liftoff is scheduled for 5:56 p.m. ET ... The main payload is a military communications satellite called Continuous Broadcast Augmenting SATCOM 2, which the Falcon Heavy will send to geostationary ...

Falcon 9 Block 5 and Bangabandhu Satellite-1 went vertical on Pad 39A in Florida this morning. Now targeting liftoff at 4:42 p.m. EDT, 20:42 UTC – vehicle and payload look good, completing final ...

Update 6:10 p.m. EDT: SpaceX has postponed the first flight of the Falcon 9 Block 5 after the rocket triggered ... which is well below the Falcon 9's payload capacity to GTO.

SpaceX provided no immediate word on what went wrong, but assuming the issue can be resolved in time the company will make a second attempt to launch the first "block 5" Falcon 9, carrying a ...

In order to take more payload into orbit ... and were used for the second time on the Falcon Heavy Demo flight side boosters. Block 5 has also been designed to meet and exceed the strict NASA ...

The two-stage "Block 5" Falcon 9 and its payload, the Bangabandhu-1 communications satellite, successfully lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida May 11, 2018. The Falcon 9's nine ...

Notable on this list is Europa Clipper, a $5 billion mission led by the Jet ... the rocket's two side boosters eats into the Falcon Heavy's payload capacity, but the SpaceX heavy-lifter still ...

New T-0 of 5:47 p.m. EDT—vehicle and payload continue to look good for today's first flight of Falcon 9 Block 5. It's a routine mission in almost every way except that this particular Falcon 9 ...