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Month: May 2016

Mission Reports

Long March 4B lofts Earth-viewing satellites for China, Argentina

May 31, 2016 Stephen Clark

Three Earth observation satellites for the Chinese government and a commercial Argentine startup launched Monday, entering an orbit 300 miles above Earth to begin mapping missions.

Antares Launcher

Re-engined Antares rocket completes ground test firing

May 31, 2016 Stephen Clark

Orbital ATK’s upgraded Antares rocket, featuring newly-built RD-181 main engines, completed a 30-second test firing on a launch pad on Virginia’s Eastern Shore on Tuesday.

Mission Reports

Russia’s navigation network receives new satellite

May 31, 2016 Stephen Clark

A Glonass navigation satellite blasted off Sunday aboard a Soyuz rocket, reaching an orbit nearly 12,000 miles above Earth to join Russia’s fleet of positioning, navigation and timing spacecraft.

Falcon 9

Ride aboard the Falcon 9 rocket’s first stage on descent

May 28, 2016 Stephen Clark

Take a virtual trip from space back to planet Earth with an sped up video clip showing the eye-popping on-board views from the Falcon 9 rocket’s first stage booster as it plummeted back to Earth, opened aerodynamic steering fins and fired its engines for a final braking maneuver just before touchdown.

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Video: Next space station trio finishing training at Star City

May 28, 2016 Justin Ray

Soyuz commander Anatoly Ivanishin and flight engineers Kate Rubins of NASA and Takuya Onishi of JAXA conduct final qualification training at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center for their flight to the International Space Station in June.

Falcon 9

SpaceX logs successful late afternoon launch for Thaicom

May 27, 2016 Stephen Clark

A Falcon 9 rocket took off from Cape Canaveral and climbed into space Friday, propelling a Thai television relay satellite into orbit and achieving its third dramatic ocean landing in a row, adding to SpaceX’s growing inventory of recovered rocket boosters.

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Details of Orbital ATK’s proposed heavy launcher revealed

May 27, 2016 Stephen Clark

The launch vehicle Orbital ATK wants to face off against SpaceX and United Launch Alliance for lucrative U.S. military contracts would be made of two internally-built solid rocket motors and an upper stage engine supplied by Blue Origin, the entrepreneurial space firm led by Jeff Bezos, an Orbital ATK official said this week.

Delta 4

Delta 4-Heavy launch postponed by unspecified payload issue

May 27, 2016 Justin Ray

Payload readiness has delayed next weekend’s planned Delta 4-Heavy rocket launch for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office.

Falcon 9

Stressing caution, SpaceX delays commercial satellite launch

May 26, 2016 Stephen Clark

SpaceX scrubbed a launch Thursday to investigate a “tiny glitch” in an upper stage engine actuator on the company’s Falcon 9 rocket, delaying liftoff from Florida of a Thai communications satellite at least 24 hours.

Falcon 9

Photos: SpaceX prepares to launch 25th Falcon 9 rocket

May 26, 2016 Stephen Clark

A Thai communications satellite is fastened to the top of SpaceX’s 229-foot-tall Falcon 9 rocket for launch Thursday. See photos of the Falcon 9 and Thaicom 8 being prepared for liftoff.

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  • SpaceX launches 1,000th Starlink satellite of the year during Friday morning mission
    May 16, 2025
  • Axiom Mission 4 delayed due to Dragon capsule readiness
    May 14, 2025
  • SpaceX launches 475th Falcon 9 rocket to date on afternoon Starlink flight
    May 14, 2025
  • Intuitive Machines’ CEO points to issues that prevented upright touchdown during IM-2 Moon landing
    May 14, 2025
  • SpaceX launches 26 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SFB
    May 12, 2025
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