Live coverage: Ariane 5 blasts off with two Intelsat satellites

Russian technicians rolled a Soyuz rocket from its integration hangar to the launch pad in French Guiana on Tuesday morning, positioning the booster to receive two Galileo navigation satellites ahead of liftoff Friday.

The heart of NASA’s first flight-ready Space Launch System heavy-lift rocket emerged from its factory in New Orleans Wednesday morning for a barge trip to the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi for an eight-minute test-firing of its space shuttle-era hydrogen-fueled engines.

Boeing has released a new video of the company’s Nov. 4 pad abort test demonstrating the Starliner crew capsule’s ability to escape a launch emergency.