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Month: March 2015

Mission Reports

Space station crew ready to close out 167-day mission

March 10, 2015 Stephen Clark

Two Russian cosmonauts and a U.S. Navy test pilot will buckle into custom-molded seats inside a Soyuz spaceship Wednesday, undock from the International Space Station and head for a parachute-assisted landing in Kazakhstan to close out a 167-day space voyage.

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Pluto-bound probe tweaks its trajectory

March 10, 2015 Stephen Clark

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft fine-tuned its path toward Pluto on Tuesday, firing its rocket thrusters for 93 seconds to aim for a fleeting flyby of the distant dwarf planet July 14.

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Europa Clipper concept team aims for launch in 2022

March 10, 2015 Stephen Clark

With a commitment from the Obama administration finally in hand after more than a decade of studies and concept papers, NASA expects to give the green light this year for development of a robotic probe to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa that could launch as soon as 2022.

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Stationary rocket to be test-fired in Utah for NASA

March 10, 2015 Justin Ray

The largest solid rocket booster in the world, an extended version of the space shuttle motor, will be test-fired in Utah on Wednesday to check its qualifications to be part of NASA’s new heavy-lift Space Launch System.

Atlas 5

Atlas 5 rocket cleared for rollout to launch pad

March 10, 2015 Justin Ray

Mission leaders Tuesday gave approval for rollout of the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket on Wednesday morning, leading to liftoff Thursday night of the Magnetospheric Multiscale science project for NASA.

Atlas 5

Atlas/MMS launch timeline

March 10, 2015 Justin Ray

This is the ascent timeline to be followed by the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket in launching NASA’s MMS mission on March 12 at 10:44 p.m. EDT.

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Japan’s Hayabusa 2 asteroid mission checks out

March 9, 2015 Stephen Clark

Three months into an interplanetary cruise expected to last three-and-a-half years, Japan’s Hayabusa 2 probe is in good health as it begins an ion-powered pursuit of an asteroid to return a piece of it to Earth.

Falcon 9

Weeks from another launch, SpaceX keeping pace with manifest

March 8, 2015 Stephen Clark

The next launch in SpaceX’s busy manifest this year is scheduled for March 21, when a Falcon 9 rocket will take off from Cape Canaveral and deliver Turkmenistan’s first satellite into orbit.

Atlas 5

Preview: Atlas 5 rocket to launch NASA magnetic field study

March 8, 2015 Justin Ray

A $1.1 billion science investigation involving four formation-flying satellites circling the Earth will share a single Atlas 5 rocket launch Thursday night from Cape Canaveral to probe explosions in the magnetic field with millisecond speed.

Video

On this date: March 8

March 8, 2015 Justin Ray

#OTD in 2001, Discovery launched on STS-102 to exchange crews aboard the International Space Station

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News Headlines

  • SpaceX scrubs launch attempt for 21 data transport satellites for the Space Development Agency
    October 4, 2026
  • Falcon Heavy flies its first mission for U.S. spy satellite agency
    October 1, 2026
  • Fresh crew takes off for six-month stay aboard space station
    October 1, 2026
  • Launch preview: NASA, SpaceX launch next crewed mission to the International Space Station
    October 1, 2026
  • NASA plans unpiloted Starliner test flight at end of year
    September 29, 2026
  • Starship returns to Earth; rocket splashes down north of Hawaii after three-hour flight
    September 28, 2026
  • Launch preview: SpaceX to launch first Starlink V3 satellites to orbit on Starship
    September 28, 2026
  • Next crew bound for the space station arrive in Florida
    September 26, 2026
  • SpaceX Falcon 9 launches classified mission for U.S. Space Force from West Coast
    September 25, 2026
  • NASA announces new space telescope ‘PRIMA’ to launch in 2033
    September 24, 2026
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