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In a historic first, after waiting out inclement weather, Orbital ATK successfully lit up the night sky and launched a Minotaur IV solid-fuel rocket from Cape Canaveral’s Launch Complex 46 last night and delivered the U.S. Air Force’s Operationally Responsive Space-5 (ORS-5) spacecraft to low Earth orbit. ORS-5 marks the first Minotaur IV launch from […]
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Marking the end of an era, NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite-M (TDRS-M) thundered into space this morning onboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V-401 rocket. Following a 26-minute delay to troubleshoot out of limit temperatures on the Centaur upper stage, TDRS-M lifted off at 8:29 a.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape […]
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Major experiments that will look into the human body and out into the galaxy are on their way to the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft following its 5:07 p.m. EDT launch aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. SpaceX CRS-11 Launch The Dragon lifted off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center […]
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Rocket Lab broke new ground today when its Electron rocket reached space at 16:23 NZST. Electron lifted-off at 16:20 NZST from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 on the Mahia Peninsula in New Zealand. It was the first orbital-class rocket launched from from a private launch site in the world. Rocketlab Electron “It’s A Test” Launch […]
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Demonstrating SpaceX”s ramped-up two missions per month launch rate, the company successfully launched the Inmarsat-5 Flight 4 spacecraft on its two-stage Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center today. Once again, Falcon flew from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A), lifting off at 7:21 pm EDT. Falcon 9 / Inmarsat-5 F4 Launch Pad Remote And Press Site […]
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NASA has selected 10 studies under the Planetary Science Deep Space SmallSat Studies (PSDS3) program to develop mission concepts using small satellites to investigate Venus, Earth’s moon, asteroids, Mars and the outer planets. For these studies, small satellites are defined as less than 180 kilograms in mass (about 400 pounds). CubeSats are built to standard […]
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Blazing a fiery trail in the sky above Cape Canaveral, a United Launch Alliance Delta IV rocket successfully orbited the ninth Wideband Global Satcom (WGS-9) spacecraft for the U.S. Air Force last night, the second launch in three days and third in four weeks from Florida. After a 34-minute delay to troubleshoot an issue with […]
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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket successfully orbited the EchoStar XXIII to Geostationary Transfer Orbit this morning, marking the company’s second flight from historic Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center. Following a slight delay during the countdown, Falcon 9 lifted off at 2:00 a.m. EDT to begin its middle of the night climb to orbit. See […]
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Orbital ATK’s Cygnus spacecraft is being prepped for it seventh launch under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services contract to deliver experiments and supplies to the International Space Station. This will be the third time Cygnus has launched on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, which enables it to carry more payload than launching on Orbital’s […]
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United Launch Alliance announced this evening that the launch of the ninth Wideband Global Satcom spacecraft (WGS-9) onboard a Delta IV is being delayed until no earlier than March 14, 2017 due to a technical issue discovered during first stage booster inspections. When it lifts off from Space Launch Complex 37B at Cape Canaveral AFS, […]
