Live coverage of the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket flight to deploy NASA’s TDRS-M data relay satellite. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.
(Launch webcast begins at 7:30 a.m. EDT / 1130 GMT)
Mission Reports
Live coverage: Falcon 9 rocket lifts off with GovSat 1
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched at 4:25 p.m. EST (2125 GMT) Wednesday from Cape Canaveral with the GovSat 1 communications satellite, a military-grade craft to relay signals for Luxembourg and allied nations. SpaceX’s launch team scrubbed an attempt Tuesday to replace a transducer on the company’s Falcon 9 rocket and wait for improved weather conditions.
Atlas 5
Photos: Atlas 5 launches MUOS 5
Falcon 9
Live coverage: Falcon 9 rocket blasts off with Israeli moon lander, Indonesian comsat
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 8:45 p.m. EST Thursday (0145 GMT Friday) from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The commercial launcher, featuring a reused first stage booster flying for the third time, hauled into orbit Indonesia’s Nusantara Satu communications satellite, the Beresheet lunar lander for SpaceIL, and the S5 space surveillance payload for the Air Force Research Laboratory.