Tag: Cargo Dragon Spacecraft

US Air Force Carries Out Dramatic Nighttime Minuteman III Test

Defense News reports, “Air Force Global Strike Command carried out a test of an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile late Tuesday night. The ICBM, which was equipped with multiple targeted reentry vehicles, launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at about 11 p.m. Pacific time. It then flew about 4,200 miles, at roughly 15,000 miles per hour, to a ballistic missile test site in the Marshall Islands’ Kwajalein Atoll.”
Full Story (Defense News)

 

 

 

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US Air Force launches unarmed ICBM (Launch at 0:01 mark)
(VideoFromSpace); YouTube)

SpaceX Launches Cargo Dragon Spacecraft on 31st ISS Resupply Mission

Spaceflight Now reports that a SpaceX Cargo Dragon spacecraft launched Monday evening to begin its fifth journey to the International Space Station, carrying with it “more than 6,000 pounds of cargo and science experiments to the orbiting outpost. Liftoff of the Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) happened at 9:29 p.m. EST “
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SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches Cargo Dragon from Kennedy Space Center (Launch at 1:31:11 mark)
(Spaceflight Now); YouTube)