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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Elon Musk expects at least 20 or 30 missions from each Falcon 9 block 5 booster rockets. Currently, the booster rockets have been reused 3 times with some recovered for their fourth launch. Thirty ...

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 Falcon Heavy during launch from Kennedy Space Center ... in which an unspecified payload was delivered to geosynchronous orbit (GEO)—a distant Earth orbit in which an object orbits at ...

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 ...

This mission will be the first for 39A since the Falcon Heavy ... 9 Block 5 launch of Bangabandhu Satellite-1 on May 10 from Pad 39A in Florida. — SpaceX (@SpaceX) May 7, 2018 The payload ...

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 ...

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 ...