@SpaceX has successfully launched its 100th #Falcon9, as booster fleet leader B1049 logs record-setting 7th mission. […]
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The Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich ocean observation satellite lifted off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 9:17 a.m. PST (12:17 p.m. EST) Saturday, Nov. 21, 2020. In this composite, the rocket can be seen at left landing. Photo: Oliver Pelham Burn / […] 
DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-4 satellite is readied for encapsulation in the Atlas V payload fairing on 8 September 2016. Photo Credit: Lockheed Martin Twenty-five months after the WorldView-3 commercial Earth-imaging satellite was launched into orbit, its near-twin is set to rocket out of Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., no sooner than Friday, 16 September, atop […] 
The Upgraded Falcon 9 first stage for the Eutelsat 117 West B and ABS-2A double-deployment mission arrives at Cape Canaveral on 27 May. Photo Credit: SpaceX If all goes according to plan, the morning of Wednesday, 15 June, should bring a pinch of déjà vu for SpaceX, as the Hawthorne, Calif.-headquartered launch services […] 
The 25th Falcon 9 vehicle roars aloft from Space Launch Complex (SLC)-40 at 5:39 p.m. EDT Friday, 27 May. The mission delivered SpaceX’s tenth payload towards Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO) and accomplished the fourth successful landing of first-stage hardware in an intact configuration. Photo Credit: John Studwell/AmericaSpace SpaceX successfully delivered the 25th member […] 
History was made on 21 December 2015, as SpaceX brought the first stage of its Upgraded Falcon 9 back from the edge of space and guided it to a precision landing on solid ground. Photo Credit: SpaceX Having suffered the catastrophic loss of a Falcon 9 v1.1 booster during first-stage flight on 28 […] 
The Orbital ATK Cygnus spacecraft on a previous ISS resupply flight for NASA. Photo Credit: NASA In the early evening hours of December 6, a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas-V rocket carrying Orbital ATK’s Cygnus cargo spacecraft, named Deke Slayton II, thundered into the clouds at 4:44 pm EST, headed for the International […] 
When NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite passed over Patricia on October 23 at 5:20 a.m. EDT the VIIRS instrument that flies aboard Suomi NPP looked at the storm in infrared light. Cloud top temperatures of thunderstorms around the eyewall were between 180K (-135.7F/ -93.1C) and 190 Kelvin (-117.7F/ -83.1C).Image Credit: UW/CIMSS/William Straka III As […] The Morelos-3 satellite is encapsulated within its 13-foot-diameter (4-meter) Payload Fairing (PLF), ahead of integration with the Atlas V 421. Photo Credit: ULA For the second time this year—and only the fifth occasion in its history—United Launch Alliance (ULA) will fly the venerable Atlas V booster in its sparingly-used “421” configuration on Friday, […] 
Launch Complex 39C (LC-39C) is situated on the southeast side of LC-39B and will provide launch opportunities for a new market of Small Class Vehicles. Photo Credit: Talia Landman / AmericaSpace Many changes are currently taking place at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida to cater to the evolving space industry and […] |
 Next Launch OFT-2 on a Atlas V 421 rocket from Cape Canaveral AFB, FL scheduled for: 30 Jul 21 at 18:53 GMT 30 Jul 21 at 2:53pm Eastern 
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