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[ July 25, 2026 ] SpaceX Falcon 9 launches Starlink satellites from West Coast Falcon 9
[ July 25, 2026 ] Super Heavy-Starship rocket chalks up mostly successful test flight Artemis
[ July 24, 2026 ] Critical NASA Deep Space ground station in Spain evacuated due to wildfires News
[ July 23, 2026 ] Launch preview: SpaceX ready for 2nd attempt to launch Starship Flight 13 following post-abort engine work Artemis
[ July 21, 2026 ] SpaceX launches novel geosynchronous robotic servicing satellite on decade-long mission Falcon 9

Engineers analyzing short circuit on Mars rover

March 5, 2015 Stephen Clark

A short circuit that halted movement of NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is not expected to keep the mobile robot stationary for long, but engineers want to know whether the problem will restrict some future science operations.

Crunch time: Next Mars lander enters final year before launch

March 4, 2015 Stephen Clark

Wednesday marked one year until the launch of a NASA seismic station to Mars, and scientists believe they have found a suitable operating post for the lander as engineers race to keep the mission on schedule for liftoff in a narrow 26-day window next March.

Power system failure likely cause of military satellite explosion

March 4, 2015 Stephen Clark

The U.S. Air Force says a temperature spike in the power system of a nearly 20-year-old weather satellite may have led to the spacecraft’s explosion in orbit, scattering more than 40 fragments of debris that could be flying around Earth for decades.

Liftoff of Indian navigation satellite postponed

March 4, 2015 Stephen Clark

The launch of a satellite for India’s indigenous navigation network has been postponed to resolve a problem with one of the spacecraft’s radio transmitters, officials said Wednesday.

Photos: Last look at Sunday’s launch by SpaceX

March 4, 2015 Stephen Clark

Sunday’s liftoff of a Falcon 9 rocket marked the 16th flight of SpaceX’s workhorse launcher, and its third mission of the year. Here is another set of launch photos from SpaceX.

Could Delta rockets soon be a thing of the past?

March 4, 2015 Justin Ray

With as few as 15 more launches on the calendar over the next five years, the rocket name “Delta” that has been serving the U.S. and international customers since 1960 could permanently fade into history.

Photos: Shroud installed around satellite quartet, connected to Atlas 5

March 4, 2015 Justin Ray

NASA’s four Magnetospheric Multiscale mission spacecraft were encapsulated Feb. 23 in the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket’s nose cone at the commercial Astrotech processing campus in Titusville. Delivery of the payload to the Atlas 5 assembly building for mating occurred on Friday, Feb. 27.

Engineers analyzing short circuit on Mars rover

Crunch time: Next Mars lander enters final year before launch

Power system failure likely cause of military satellite explosion

Liftoff of Indian navigation satellite postponed

Photos: Last look at Sunday’s launch by SpaceX

Could Delta rockets soon be a thing of the past?

Photos: Shroud installed around satellite quartet, connected to Atlas 5

Rosetta glimpses its own shadow on comet 67P

NASA eyes ion engines for Mars orbiter launching in 2022

Reader-submitted shots of Falcon 9 launch