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Live coverage: Ariane 5 rocket soars with Sky Muster, Arsat 2

September 30, 2015 Stephen Clark

Live coverage of the countdown and launch of an Ariane 5 rocket with the Sky Muster and Arsat 2 communications satellites. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.


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New Horizons’ next target might be a binary pair

August 8, 2017 Stephen Clark

Ground observations of the New Horizons spacecraft’s next target last month revealed the distant object, lurking in the outer solar system more than four billion miles from Earth, might have an unconventional elongated shape, or even consist of two icy bodies orbiting one another in an age-old cosmic dance.

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Live coverage: Space station crew safely returns to Earth

February 5, 2020 Stephen Clark

The Russian Soyuz MS-13 spacecraft departed the International Space Station and landed in Kazakhstan Thursday, bringing home outgoing space station commander Luca Parmitano, Soyuz pilot Alexander Skvortsov, and NASA astronaut Christina Koch, who concluded a 328-day mission, the longest-ever spaceflight by a woman. The Soyuz undocked from the station at 0550 GMT (12:50 a.m. EST) Thursday, then landed on the Kazakh steppe at 0912 GMT (4:12 a.m. EST).

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Live coverage: Atlas 5 countdown and launch journal

September 19, 2017 Justin Ray

A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket powered away from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California tonight to place a classified surveillance satellite into space for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office. Follow the ascent in our live journal.

News Headlines

  • Issue with Atlas 5 booster liquid oxygen vent valve causes second scrub of ViaSat-3 F2 launch
    November 6, 2025
  • SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SFB
    November 6, 2025
  • Atlas booster valve issue scrubs launch of ViaSat-3 F2 satellite
    November 5, 2025
  • SpaceX launches 29 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral
    November 5, 2025
  • President Trump renominates commercial astronaut Jared Isaacman for NASA administrator
    November 4, 2025
  • Commercial space station demo, data center precursor launch on SpaceX Bandwagon-4 mission
    November 1, 2025
  • SpaceX launches 100th Starlink flight of 2025
    October 31, 2025
  • Former NASA Administrators urge space agency to rethink plans for Artemis Moon lander
    October 30, 2025
  • SpaceX launches 29 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral
    October 28, 2025
  • Blue Origin details lunar exploration progress amid Artemis 3 contract shakeup
    October 28, 2025
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