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Texas aerospace company signs launch agreement with Cape Canaveral

Texas aerospace company signs launch agreement with Cape Canaveral

by Sarah Rumpf | Feb 26, 2019

An aerospace company based in Austin, Texas has signed a multimillion dollar agreement with Space Florida to manufacture and launch rockets at Cape Canaveral. The company, Firefly Aerospace, told the Austin American-Statesman that it plans to invest $52 million in the...
Texas aerospace company signs launch agreement with Cape Canaveral

SpaceX successfully launches South Korean satellite from Kennedy Space Center

by Sarah Rumpf | Oct 30, 2017

SpaceX successfully launched a South Korean communications satellite into orbit Monday afternoon from Kennedy Space Center, including landing the rocket on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean so it could be recovered and reused in future launches. The launch occurred...
SpaceX night launch causes sonic boom as US gets closer to resuming manned spaceflight

SpaceX night launch causes sonic boom as US gets closer to resuming manned spaceflight

by Sarah Rumpf | Jul 18, 2016

SpaceX’s early morning launch of its Falcon 9 rocket, carrying an unmanned Dragon spacecraft, caused a sonic boom to be heard across Central Florida in the wee hours of Monday morning, as the rocket returned safely to land. The sonic boom woke people up, but the...

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