Live coverage: Japanese cargo craft arrives at space station

A United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket lifted off Wednesday at 2:36 p.m. EDT (1836 GMT) from Cape Canaveral on a mission to place into orbit a fresh satellite for the Global Positioning System.

A Proton rocket blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 2040 GMT (4:40 p.m. EDT) Friday with Turkey’s Turksat 4B communications satellite.

An Ariane 5 rocket launched from French Guiana at 2150 GMT (5:50 p.m. EDT) Thursday with a pair of European-built communications satellites for the Brazilian government and KTsat, a South Korean telecom operator. Liftoff was delayed more than one hour to resolve a problem with ground equipment.