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Florida Today
March 14, 2018
McLouth, a Republican from Cocoa Beach, is one of three active candidates for the District 5 seat now held by Republican Tom Weinberg of Cape Canaveral, who decided not to seek re-election to a third four-year term. The other candidates in District 5 are Republican Robyn Hattaway of Merritt Island,ÃÂ ...
Florida Today
March 5, 2018
SpaceX teams are moving forward with plans to launch a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station early Tuesday morning. SpaceX's fifth mission of the year will target a 12:33 a.m. liftoff from Launch Complex 40. Teams have two hours to launch the satellite for Spain-based Hispasat.
Spaceflight Now
March 1, 2018
Kicking off a 15-year service life, the 11,488-pound (5,211-kilogram) robotic weather observer lifted off at 5:02 p.m. EST (2202 GMT) Thursday from Cape Canaveral's Complex 41 launch pad. Mounted on top of a 197-foot-tall (60-meter) Atlas 5 launcher, NOAA's GOES-S weather satellite vaulted away fromÃÂ ...
Florida Today
February 28, 2018
A next-generation weather satellite slated to hitch a ride on an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral on Thursday will join its sibling 22,300 miles above the Earth, arming forecasters with high-definition data from almost the entire Western Hemisphere. On Wednesday morning, the 197-foot-tall United LaunchÃÂ ...
Florida Today
February 26, 2018
The “next great steps” in space exploration and commerce are the focus of a three-day gathering of industry experts starting Tuesday in Cape Canaveral. The 45th Space Congress at the Radisson Resort at the Port continues a revival of the once can't-miss conference, mirroring a comeback in the localÃÂ ...
Florida Today
February 23, 2018
Several blue dragon sea slugs were spotted on the beach near Cape Canaveral last weekend, and the evil-looking creatures with their menacing tendril-like digits were credited with stinging at least a few beachgoers by Brevard County Ocean Rescue officials. It's difficult to distinguish between the sting ofÃÂ ...
Miami Herald
February 23, 2018
Looks like it's all systems go for Sunday morning's SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The weather forecast appears to be cooperating for the 12:35 a.m. Sunday mission from Launch Complex 40 — it's 80 percent 'Go' conditions, according to forecasters with the AirÃÂ ...
WKMG News 6 & ClickOrlando
February 23, 2018
Less than three days after launching a Spanish radar imaging satellite from California, SpaceX aims to launch a Spanish telecommunications satellite from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station early Sunday. Liftoff of a Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Hispasat 30W-6 spacecraft from Launch Complex 40 isÃÂ ...
Palm Beach Post
February 19, 2018
... such alerts are issued in advance of visits by the President, Vice President and occasionally for other notables, such as the Pope. Aircraft are prohibited from flying in the area during such visits. Pence's office declined to comment on whether he would visit Parkland before travelling to Cape Canaveral.
SpaceCoastDaily.com
February 18, 2018
ABOVE VIDEO: United Launch Alliance is scheduled to launch their next Atlas V (GOES-S) rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Thursday, March 1. BREVARD COUNTY • CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA – United Launch Alliance is scheduled to launch their next Atlas V (GOES-S) rocket fromÃÂ ...
SpaceCoastDaily.com
February 18, 2018
BREVARD COUNTY • CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA (SpaceFlightNow.com) – NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite has arrived at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida for final testing, fueling and attachment to a Falcon 9 launcher for liftoff in mid-April, a delay of nearly one month to allow SpaceXÃÂ ...
Florida Today
February 16, 2018
The nation's next weather satellite capable of producing high-definition forecasting images was hoisted atop an Atlas V rocket on Friday morning in preparation for a March 1 blastoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The latest in the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites series, GOES-SÃÂ ...
Pactrick Air Force Base
February 12, 2018
Cape Canaveral Lighthouse celebrates 150 years of history. By Airman Zoe Thacker, 45th Space ... The Cape Canaveral Lighthouse Foundation hosted a festival on Feb. 10, 2018, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the lighthouse at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. (U.S. Air Force by Airman ZoeÃÂ ...
Florida Today
February 9, 2018
SpaceX is scheduled host the next Eastern Range launch with its Falcon 9 rocket later this month. Teams are targeting no earlier than 12:35 a.m. Feb. 22 for the launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Launch Complex 40 with a commercial communications satellite for Hispasat, an operator basedÃÂ ...
Florida Today
February 7, 2018
Mystery solved. What appeared to be a water main break earlier in the day is actually something more innocuous. A geyser just south of Jetty Park in Cape Canaveral was the only thing to lift off by 3 p.m. Tuesday. The spout of water is ocean water that is being pumped back into the ocean as a part of theÃÂ ...
Florida Today
February 7, 2018
(Photo: SpaceX). CONNECTTWEET 8 LINKEDIN 7 COMMENTEMAILMORE. SpaceX launched its Falcon Heavy rocket from Kennedy Space Center at 3:45 p.m. Tuesday and turned two of its boosters around for successful landings at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. See updates from the event below:ÃÂ ...
The Atlantic
February 7, 2018
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—Seven years ago, the Falcon Heavy was a model rocket, sitting on a table in a conference room in Washington, D.C., in front of some reporters and a couple empty seats. On Tuesday, the rocket dreamed up by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk stood 230 feet tall, on the famed launchpadÃÂ ...
Florida Today
January 31, 2018
Enter the Harbor Heights neighborhood in Cape Canaveral and prepare to hear a shrieking symphony of peacocks obnoxiously searching for a soul mate. Beyond the quaint 1960s-era beach houses, the neighborhood is known for its ever-present community of wild peacocks. Why yes, yes we do haveÃÂ ...
Bay News 9
January 31, 2018
The satellite deployed into space flawlessly, which was good news for everyone, including members of the Luxembourg royal family who were also at Cape Canaveral to watch. SpaceX wasn't going to attempt to land the first-stage Falcon 9 booster, because it was sending into a very high orbit, and thereÃÂ ...
Florida Today
January 31, 2018
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 4:25 p.m. Wednesday with the GovSat-1 communications satellite. See updates from the event below: 3rd & 7 37yd. 3rd & 7 37yd. B. S. O. close. close. -. Live. Comment; Back. Facebook; Twitter; WhatsApp; LinkedIn. SettingsÃÂ ...
SpaceCoastDaily.com
January 27, 2018
BREVARD COUNTY • CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA – On Jan. 27, 1967, tragedy struck on the launch pad at Cape Kennedy during a preflight test for Apollo 204 (AS-204). The mission was to be the first crewed flight of Apollo, and was scheduled to launch Feb. 21, 1967. Astronauts Virgil Grissom, EdwardÃÂ ...
Florida Today
January 27, 2018
SpaceX's successful test-firing of Falcon 9 rocket engines Friday cleared the way for a planned launch as soon as Tuesday afternoon of a European communications satellite from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. It was the second time in three days that SpaceX tested Merlin rocket engines on the SpaceÃÂ ...
Department of Defense
January 25, 2018
The Air Force successfully launched the fourth Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit satellite on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V Evolved Expendable launch Vehicle from Space Launch Complex 41 here, Jan 19. A curving beam of light illuminates a dark blue sky as a rocket launchesÃÂ ...
Florida Today
January 19, 2018
An Atlas V rocket sent a $1.2 billion missile warning satellite into orbit Friday night, hours before a budget impasse threatened to shut down the federal government. The 19-story United Launch Alliance rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on its second attempt at 7:48 p.m., climbing intoÃÂ ...
Florida Today
January 19, 2018
(Photo: United Launch Alliance). CONNECTTWEET 9 LINKEDIN 1 COMMENTEMAILMORE. A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Launch Complex 41 at 7:48 p.m. with a ballistic missile detection satellite for the Air Force. Se updates from the event belowÃÂ ...
Florida Today
January 18, 2018
Update: Liftoff of Atlas V from Cape Canaveral at 7:48 p.m.! An Air Force ballistic missile warning satellite is set to catch a ride tonight on an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral to an orbit more than 22,000 miles above the equator. Teams are targeting 7:52 p.m. for the opening of a 40-minute window atÃÂ ...
Florida Today
January 17, 2018
Update: Technical issues scrubbed Thursday's launch attempt. The next try is targeted for 7:48 p.m. Friday, the opening of a 40-minute window. If a North Korean ballistic missile really were headed for Hawaii — as the state mistakenly alerted residents last Saturday — a network of U.S. satellites would pickÃÂ ...
Aviation Week
January 11, 2018
The way 45th Space Wing Commander Wayne Monteith sees it, the key to supporting 48 launches a year by 2020 is to remove bureaucratic obstacles—such as having customers make reservations for range time at least six months in advance—and to invest in new technologies, such as a graphicÃÂ ...
Orlando Sentinel
January 11, 2018
The launch falls on the heels of Sunday's Falcon 9 launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station that attempted to send the secretive Zuma satellite into space. While the night launch seemed to go smoothly with the first stage once again returning to land, reports from the Washington Post and other outletsÃÂ ...
Florida Today
January 7, 2018
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket with the secretive Zuma payload from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 8 p.m. Sunday. The first stage also returned for a successful landing about eight minutes later. See a replay of the event below:ÃÂ ...
Florida Today
January 4, 2018
SpaceX is now targeting this weekend for a secretive Falcon 9 mission from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The Space Coast's first rocket launch of the year is scheduled to light up the night sky no earlier than 8 p.m. Sunday during a two-hour window at Launch Complex 40. Weather was cited as theÃÂ ...
WMFE
January 3, 2018
The 45th Space Wings says it has figured out a way for rockets to launch south from Cape Canaveral. That could mean more launches from Florida's space coast. Most launches from Cape Canaveral head east for an orbit around the equator. But some missions require launches that head north and sendÃÂ ...
Florida Today
January 2, 2018
A South Carolina-based 460 lb. shark made her way to the Sunshine State on Monday. Savannah, an 8-foot 6-inch great white shark, was located just south of the Canaveral National Seashore in the Atlantic Ocean. Ocearch, a shark research and advocacy group, said Savannah pinged near the SpaceÃÂ ...
Florida Today
January 1, 2018
The 45th Space Wing said work on the capsule called Crew Dragon or Dragon 2 would take place in Area 59, a former satellite processing facility on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. “This summer, they should be receiving their first Dragon 2 capsule, which will directly support NASA and the return ofÃÂ ...
Florida Today
December 31, 2017
The Air Force has opened a “polar corridor” that would allow certain rockets to launch spacecraft from Cape Canaveral into north-south orbits circling the poles, a development that could bring more launches to Florida. Polar launches historically have been flown from Vandenberg Air Force Base onÃÂ ...
Florida Today
December 26, 2017
Location: Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Time: 7:40 p.m.. The Atlas V (411) rocket will attempt to deploy a fourth missile warning satellite to complete the Air Force's operational Space Based Infrared System constellation, or SBIRS, in geosynchronous orbit. An Atlas V successfullyÃÂ ...
TechCrunch
December 20, 2017
SpaceX won't hit its 2017 target for a test flight of its new, huge Falcon Heavy rocket – but the massive launch craft is now in place at Cape Canaveral in Florida, where it will undergo testing including a full static test fire, as well as final assembly, before attempting its inaugural launch early next year.
Florida Today
December 19, 2017
A Cocoa Beach motorcyclist died after after crashing into a Brevard County Sheriff's deputy's patrol vehicle in Cape Canaveral Tuesday afternoon, Florida Highway Patrol reports. The motorcyclist, a 33-year-old man, was riding eastbound on East Central Boulevard just before 2 p.m. Troopers say he wasÃÂ ...
Florida Today
December 15, 2017
If sleigh bells are ringing in space, can International Space Station astronauts hear them? A SpaceX Dragon capsule believed to be bearing Christmas gifts among its 4,800 pounds of cargo is dashing to the station after a 10:36 a.m. Friday blastoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station atop a Falcon 9ÃÂ ...
Florida Today
December 15, 2017
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched from Cape Canaveral with supplies for the International Space Station at 10:36 a.m. Friday. The first stage returned for a landing at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Landing Zone 1 about 8 minutes after liftoff.
Florida Today
December 15, 2017
If sleigh bells are ringing in space, can International Space Station astronauts hear them? A SpaceX Dragon capsule believed to be bearing Christmas gifts among its 4,800 pounds of cargo is dashing to the station after a 10:36 a.m. Friday blastoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station atop a Falcon 9ÃÂ ...
Florida Today
December 11, 2017
Update: Liftoff of Falcon 9! The rocket successfully launched from Cape Canaveral and returned for a first stage landing about 8 minutes later. SpaceX will host the Space Coast's final rocket launch of the year when it vaults a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Friday. Packed into aÃÂ ...
Florida Today
December 6, 2017
SpaceX conducted a successful test fire of a Falcon 9 rocket at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Wednesday, breathing new life into a launch pad that had not seen smoke and fire since a 2016 explosion left it heavily damaged. The brief checkout of the rocket's nine Merlin main engines at 3 p.m., knownÃÂ ...
Florida Today
December 31, 1999
At Patrick Air Force Base and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, civilian employees also reported to work Monday morning to receive furlough notices. ... “It also impacts critical missions for our customers, including important international allies scheduled to launch shortly from Cape Canaveral andÃÂ ...
C4ISRNet
December 31, 1999
An Atlas 5 rocket carrying the SBIRS GEO Flight 4 mission for the U.S. Air Force lifts off from Space Launch Complex-41. (Ben Cooper/United Launch Alliance). The Air Force launched the fourth satellite in its next-generation missile warning constellation aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocketÃÂ ...
Florida Today
December 31, 1999
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket with the secretive Zuma payload from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 8 p.m. Sunday. The first stage also returned for a successful landing about eight minutes later. See a replay of the event below:ÃÂ ...
Florida Today
December 31, 1999
Update: Watch live here. A nearly two-month delay has only added to the mystery surrounding a classified government mission SpaceX plans to launch Sunday night from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station — the first of potentially more than 30 Space Coast launches in 2018. A Falcon 9 rocket is targetingÃÂ ...
Florida Today
December 27, 2017
Location: Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Time: 7:40 p.m.. The Atlas V (411) rocket will attempt to deploy a fourth missile warning satellite to complete the Air Force's operational Space Based Infrared System constellation, or SBIRS, in geosynchronous orbit. An Atlas V successfullyÃÂ ...
Florida Today
December 19, 2017
A Cocoa Beach motorcyclist died after after crashing into a Brevard County Sheriff's deputy's patrol vehicle in Cape Canaveral Tuesday afternoon, Florida Highway Patrol reports. The motorcyclist, a 33-year-old man, was riding eastbound on East Central Boulevard just before 2 p.m. Troopers say he wasÃÂ ...
Florida Today
December 15, 2017
If sleigh bells are ringing in space, can International Space Station astronauts hear them? A SpaceX Dragon capsule believed to be bearing Christmas gifts among its 4,800 pounds of cargo is dashing to the station after a 10:36 a.m. Friday blastoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station atop a Falcon 9ÃÂ ...
