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Live coverage: Orion lands in Pacific

December 2, 2014 Spaceflight Now

Live coverage of the countdown and flight of a Delta 4-Heavy rocket carrying NASA’s Orion space capsule on its first test flight in Earth orbit. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.

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News Headlines

  • Jared Isaacman makes second appeal for NASA administrator position
    December 3, 2025
  • Sunset SpaceX launch adds 29 more Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit
    December 2, 2025
  • Arianespace launches South Korean Earth observation satellite on Vega-C flight
    December 2, 2025
  • SpaceX launches evening Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SFB
    December 1, 2025
  • SpaceX kicks off December with predawn Falcon 9 rocket launch
    November 30, 2025
  • SpaceX launches 140 spacecraft on Transporter-15 rideshare mission
    November 28, 2025
  • NASA astronaut, two cosmonauts take Thanksgiving Day ride to space station
    November 27, 2025
  • BlackSky confirms it was the ‘confidential customer’ on recent Rocket Lab Electron rocket launch
    November 27, 2025
  • SpaceX scrubs Transporter-15 launch, targets Friday for next attempt
    November 26, 2025
  • NASA, Boeing pivot Starliner-1 mission from 4-person astronaut flight to cargo-only
    November 24, 2025
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