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in SpaceSolar Orbiter Launches to the Sun, Kicking Off Ambitious 2020 Manifest for ULA
Rocket launches out of Cape Canaveral, whilst not necessarily an everyday sight, do tend to have a measure of regularity about them. But Sunday night’s spectacular 11:03 p.m. EST launch of Solar Orbiter—a European Space Agency (ESA)-led mission which will venture nearer to the Sun than ever before, achieve higher heliographic latitudes and even “hover” over portions of our […] More
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SpaceX to Launch 3rd Mission This Month on Monday with 60 More Starlink Satellites
Only days after triumphantly completing its long-awaited In-Flight Abort Test—destroying a long-serving booster, parachuting an unmanned Crew Dragon to a safe splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean and clearing a significant milestone on the road to returning U.S. astronauts to space aboard U.S. spacecraft, atop U.S. rockets and from U.S. soil—SpaceX aims to launch another Falcon […] More
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SpaceX Launches 60 More Starlinks to Orbit
SpaceX has successfully launched one of its largest payloads to date, following a spectacular Veterans Day liftoff of the first, four-times-used Falcon 9 core from Space Launch Complex (SLC)-40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. The 230-foot-tall (70-meter) booster—its blackened and scorched lowermost section presenting visible testament to three previous ascents and high-speed re-entries over the past 16 months—roared […] More
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Secretive X-37B Returns in Darkness After 780 Day Space Mission
Residents of Florida’s ‘Space Coast’ in northern Brevard County were awakened with sonic booms before the crack of dawn this morning, thanks to the unannounced arrival of the secretive U.S. Air Force X-37B spaceplane, which landed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 3:51 a.m. local after spending 780 days in space. Doing what? Who knows, […] More
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in News, NASA, KSC, Kennedy Space Center, ArtemisFirst Engine Installed on SLS as NASA Orders More Rockets, Conducts Pathfinder Ops at KSC
NASA is full steam ahead with the Space Launch System, as years of development and manufacturing continue transitioning into flight hardware final assembly and integration for the upcoming Artemis moon missions after the turn of the decade. The agency just ordered a third rocket core and is finalizing details with Boeing for a contract of […] More
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ULA Set to Launch Last Single-Stick Delta IV Thursday with ‘Magellan’ GPS III Satellite
For the final time on Thursday, a “single-stick” Delta IV Medium booster will roar aloft from Space Launch Complex (SLC)-37B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., to transport a critical payload safely into orbit. It will be the 40th flight by a member of this venerable orange-and-white rocket family since November 2002 and the 15th […] More
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in SpaceFirst Vulcan to Launch America’s Return to the Moon with ‘Peregrine’ Lander in 2021
The United Launch Alliance (ULA) Vulcan Centaur rocket is developing full steam ahead, and today, the company announced who their first customer is; Pittsburgh, PA based Astrobotic. And their payload, will kick-off the next decade of America’s return to the surface of the moon. More
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ULA Primed for 80th Atlas V Launch with USAF ‘AEHF-5’ Satellite Thursday Morning
For the tenth time in its history, United Launch Alliance (ULA) will fly the most powerful member of its Atlas V fleet at 5:44 a.m. EDT Thursday, 8 August, when a 551 booster—boasting a 17.7-foot-diameter (5-meter) payload fairing, five strap-on solid-fueled rockets and a single-engine Centaur upper stage—rises from Space Launch Complex (SLC)-41 at Cape Canaveral […] More
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Watch SpaceX Launch Their 10th Flight of 2019 Tonight with AMOS-17
UPDATE 5:00pm EDT – SpaceX is now targeting a new T-0 of 7:23 p.m. EDT, 23:23 UTC for launch of AMOS-17, team continuing to monitor weather conditions at the Cape. Vehicle and payload still look good for launch. ORIGINAL STORY – Almost three years since a catastrophic explosion on Space Launch Complex (SLC)-40 at Cape […] More
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in SpaceSpaceX Launches 18th Space Station Resupply Mission, Lands Falcon 9 at Cape Canaveral
The International Space Station (ISS) is shaping up to be America’s go-to destination of choice this month, with the successful 20 July launch of Soyuz MS-13—carrying Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Skvortsov, U.S. astronaut Drew Morgan and Italy’s first and only spacewalker, Luca Parmitano—and today’s flight of another SpaceX Dragon cargo mission, bound for the sprawling multi-national […] More
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Watch SpaceX Try to Launch their 18th ISS Resupply Mission for NASA Tonight
First launch attempt scrubbed for bad weather, second attempt scheduled for 25 July at 6:01pm Eastern – WATCH LIVE HERE! Live coverage begins at 5:45pm Eastern Actor Bill Murray might not be aboard, but SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket B1056 will glimpse a “Groundhog Day” of its own when it launches a second mission to the […] More
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Watch Falcon Heavy Fly Its First Night Launch & DOD Mission Tonight
UPDATE 9:00pm Eastern June 24: SpaceX has delayed tonight’s planned launch from 11:30pm to ‘No Earlier Than’ 2:30am Eastern time. ORIGINAL STORY: For the third time in 16 months, SpaceX is readying the most powerful rocket in its fleet—the tripled-cored Falcon Heavy—to launch from historic Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. […] More
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