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TESS Mission’s First Earth-size World in Star’s Habitable-Zone. Video Credit: NASA Goddard NASA’s newest exoplanet-hunting space telescope, TESS, has already been making some exciting discoveries, and now two more have just been announced: its first Earth-sized planet in the habitable zone of its star and its first planet orbiting two stars. […] 
Falcon 9 soaring from Cape Canaveral with Starlink-2 for SpaceX on Jan 6, 2019. Photo: Alan Walters / AmericaSpace.com SpaceX has successfully flown the 80th fully-successful mission of Falcon 9 heritage hardware, with the spectacular Monday evening liftoff of the first U.S. launch of the 2020s. The record-tying, four-times-used B1049 core—teamed with a sparkling-new […] 
Eight months after its third launch, B1049 will return to the business of launching satellites on Monday evening, as it kicks off a busy 2020 manifest for SpaceX. Photo Credit: Alan Walters / AmericaSpace.com Sixty more Starlink satellites and the second Falcon 9 core to be used as many as four times are ready […] 
ULA’s workhorse Atlas V rocket, flying in a human-rated configuration, launches Boeing’s first Starliner crew capsule on its un-crewed Orbital Flight Test for NASA. While the launch was flawless, an automated timing issue caused Starliner to reach orbit but miss the ISS. Photo: Mike Killian / AmericaSpace.com At 6:36 a.m. EST Friday, ULA’s human-rated […] 
The JCSAT-18/Kacific-1 satellite heads to orbit atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral AFS, Florida on Dec 16, 2019. Photo: Mike Killian / AmericaSpace.com Less than two hours after local sunset, as darkness spread over Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, SpaceX successfully delivered a heavyweight payload towards geostationary transfer orbit tonight (Monday, […] 
The B1056 core launches its second mission in July 2019 to loft the CRS-18 Dragon to the ISS for NASA. Monday’s launch of JCSAT-18/Kacific-1 will mark the third mission by B1056 in only seven months. Photo Credit: Alan Walters / AmericaSpace.com A twice-used Falcon 9 core stage stands ready on Space Launch Complex (SLC)-40 […] 
The Boeing CST-100 Starliner crew capsule atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas-V rocket atop Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral AFS on Dec 6, undergoing a major practice countdown Wet Dress Rehearsal for a launch attempt on the uncrewed Orbital Flight Test to and from the International Space Station as soon as Dec 20. […] 
SpaceX launching a reused Cargo Dragon on the CRS-19 mission to the ISS for NASA on 5 Dec, 2019. Photo: SpaceX After a strangely quiet late summer and fall across Florida’s Space Coast—at least as far as launches are concerned—SpaceX ramped up the tempo earlier today (Thursday, 5 December) by staging its second Falcon […] 
Boeing’s first CST-100 ‘Starliner’ crew capsule rolls out of the company’s Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Nov. 21, 2019. Photo: Jeff Seibert / AmericaSpace.com Early Wednesday (Nov 21), Boeing rolled out their first CST-100 Starliner crew capsule for space, departing a former space shuttle processing […] 
SpaceX conducted a successful full-duration static fire test of Crew Dragon’s launch escape system again on Nov 13, 2019, and will now work with NASA to review the data & proceed towards their next major flight test milestone before putting astronauts onboard; an in-flight abort during a rocket launch itself, to validate Dragon’s launch […] |
 Next Launch Crew Dragon IAT on a Falcon 9 rocket from KSC,FL scheduled for: 18 Jan 20 at 17:00 GMT 18 Jan 20 at 12:00pm Eastern 
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