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Video: New Horizons phone home will confirm health of spacecraft

January 1, 2019 Spaceflight Now

New Horizons Mission Operations Manager (MOM) Alice Bowman describes how New Horizons will turn to Earth and ‘phone home’ to confirm if the flyby of Ultima Thule was a success.

Early image of Ultima Thule revealed, providing hints on its shape

January 1, 2019 Spaceflight Now

John Spencer, the New Horizons Deputy Project Scientist, reveals the first multi-pixel image of Ultima Thule which provide hints at its shape during a news conference at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.

Video: Marc Buie, New Horizons Occultation Team Lead (members only)

December 31, 2018 Spaceflight Now

Marc Buie, Occultation Team Lead, reveals what we know so far about the shape of Ultima Thule as New Horizons races towards its encounter with the Kuiper Belt object.

Watch SpaceX’s crew access arm swing back (members only)

December 20, 2018 Spaceflight Now

The crew access arm at launch complex 39A swings back and the strong back is raised upright in this time-lapse video which runs at 100 times normal speed.

Live view of the Falcon 9 at launch complex 40 (members only)

December 5, 2018 Spaceflight Now

SpaceX is preparing for its second Falcon 9 rocket launch in two days, with liftoff of a space station-bound Dragon supply ship from Cape Canaveral planned at 1:16 p.m. EST (1816 GMT) Wednesday. The Falcon 9’s first stage will target a landing back at Cape Canaveral around eight minutes after launch.

Live from Launch Pad 39A (members only)

November 10, 2018 Spaceflight Now

A live view of launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center where SpaceX is getting ready to launch the launch the Es’hail 2 communications satellite.

Multiple replays of the Soyuz launch and abort

October 12, 2018 Spaceflight Now

Replays from cameras at the Baikonur Cosmodrome capture the launch of a Soyuz booster from different angles.

Watch a replay of the Soyuz launch and abort

October 11, 2018 Spaceflight Now

Watch as Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin and NASA astronaut Nick Hague launch aboard a Soyuz rocket bound for the International Space Station but a Soyuz booster failure cut short their ascent into orbit.

Live clean audio coverage: Final Delta 2 rocket set for launch (members only)

September 15, 2018 Spaceflight Now

Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket with NASA’s ICESat 2 satellite to measure global ice sheets.

Watch live: SLS launch platform rolls to the VAB (members only)

September 7, 2018 Spaceflight Now

Watch as NASA rolls the SLS mobile launch platform from launch pad 39B to the Vehicle Assembly building at the Kennedy Space Center.