Six days after a ground station malfunction scrubbed the mission’s first launch attempt, a Japanese Epsilon rocket was poised for blastoff at 8:51 p.m. EDT Wednesday (0051 GMT Thursday) with nine small technology demonstration satellites. But officials called off the mission again, this time citing unfavorable upper level winds.
Set for launch Oct. 16 on a flight to explore asteroids in the outer solar system, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has been fueled and encapsulated inside the payload fairing of its Atlas 5 rocket. Watch as Chris McCaa, a manager from spacecraft manufacturer Lockheed Martin, points out some of the features of the probe.
A Russian actress and film director rode into orbit Tuesday alongside a veteran Russian cosmonaut, taking aim on the International Space Station to shoot scenes for a feature-length movie. The three-person crew blasted off on a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 4:55 a.m. EDT (0855 GMT) Tuesday. Docking occurred at 8:22 a.m. EDT (1222 GMT).
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