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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida — The second time’s the charm for SpaceX. This morning at 3:44 a.m. EDT the company’s Falcon 9 rocket lifted off of Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral. After a faulty valve caused an aborted liftoff Saturday, today’s successful launch marks the third flight of the Falcon 9 rocket, the second flight [...]
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This morning’s scheduled launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was scrubbed with less than a second remaining on the countdown clock. In the pre-dawn darkness at Cape Canaveral in Florida, everything was looking good for a 4:55 a.m. ... Read Post

And we have liftoff: the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida Friday in its first launch test, CNN reports, after an earlier aborted attempt just seconds before ignition. SpaceX, the brainchild of Paypal ... Read Post

Space Exploration Systems successfully launched its Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft at 10:43AM EST this morning from Cape Canaveral in Florida into low earth orbit. The launch marks the second flight for a Falcon 9 and the fir... Read Post