Live coverage: SpaceX launches another batch of Starlink satellites

Bruce Banerdt leads the InSight science team, and is in charge of the lander heading for Mars to study the red planet’s interior structure, collecting data that should yield new information about the environment in the early solar system, when planets coalesced and formed 4.5 billion years ago.

An Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle lifted off Saturday and flew to an altitude of more than 360 miles to deploy two Singaporean satellites, one for all-weather radar imaging surveillance and another for technology demonstrations.

Orbital ATK’s bid to join the U.S. military’s roster of rockets to haul the most critical national security satellites into orbit faces stiff competition from entrenched launch providers and billionaire entrepreneurs, but the company is confident its Next Generation Launch system will win one of three funding agreements the Air Force is expected to award this summer.