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August 31, 2025

Breaking News

[ August 30, 2025 ] Live coverage: SpaceX’s Sunday morning Falcon 9 launch will send 1,900th Starlink to orbit in 2025 Falcon 9
[ August 29, 2025 ] SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites into polar orbit Falcon 9
[ August 29, 2025 ] NASA, NOAA prep spacecraft trio to study the Sun and its impacts Mission Reports
[ August 27, 2025 ] SpaceX launches record-breaking 30th flight of a Falcon 9 booster Falcon 9
[ August 27, 2025 ] SpaceX completes 400th Falcon booster landing on a drone ship Mission Reports

GPS modernization continues with quick pace of launches

October 13, 2014 Stephen Clark

A new satellite launched Aug. 1 has joined the U.S. Air Force’s GPS navigation network to help guide everything from bombs to road trippers to their destinations, with final preparations on track to send up another GPS spacecraft at the end of October.

Mysterious satellite launched from Florida by Atlas 5 rocket

September 16, 2014 Stephen Clark

Rocketing through gloomy skies with a payload clouded in a veil of secrecy, a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket fired away from Cape Canaveral on Tuesday to deploy a satellite thousands of miles above Earth.