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SpaceX rolled a fully-assembled Falcon 9 booster out of its hangar and lifted it on top of a launch pad Friday for the first time since an explosion grounded the commercial rocket last year, setting the stage for a one-second launch window Saturday to...

A powerful 235-foot tall rocket -- the tallest launch vehicle in the country -- climbed toward the sky with a roar heard for miles along the California coast when it took off Wednesday morning from Vandenberg Air Force Base (map) northwest of Santa Barbara...

AMSAT-UK: The planned launch of two satellites, DANDE and CUSat, carrying amateur radio payloads should be streamed live to the web at 1600 UT on Sunday, September 29. SpaceX officials are pressing ahead with launch preparations for the company&rsquo...

for-all-mankind: SpaceX prepares for return to flight launch from Vandenberg. For the first time in over four months, SpaceX is preparing a Falcon 9 rocket for launch. Carrying ten next-generation IridiumNEXT communications satellites into orbit, this...

Boeing Delta IV Heavy (click to view full) The EELV program was designed to reduce the cost of government space launches through greater contractor competition, and modifiable rocket families whose system requirements emphasized simplicity, commonality...