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  • [ December 18, 2025 ] Rocket Lab launches 4 novel DiskSat satellites for U.S. Space Force, NASA Electron
  • [ December 18, 2025 ] Senate confirms Jared Isaacman as 15th NASA Administrator News
  • [ December 17, 2025 ] SpaceX flies Starlink mission using Falcon 9 booster flying for a 30th time Falcon 9
  • [ December 16, 2025 ] SpaceX launches Wednesday morning Starlink mission from Kennedy Space Center Falcon 9
  • [ December 15, 2025 ] Rocket Lab Electron rocket aborts liftoff at engine ignition Electron

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H-2A

Philae’s “little cousin” heading for asteroid touchdown

December 2, 2014 Stephen Clark

Weeks after accomplishing the first touchdown on a comet, the team of European scientists that developed the Philae landing craft is awaiting launch of a related robot riding piggyback with Japan’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft to achieve the same feat on an asteroid.

Mission Reports

Small satellites have another way to get into space

December 2, 2014 Stephen Clark

A spherical U.S. Navy spacecraft the size of a beach ball spring-ejected from a new satellite deployer outside the International Space Station last week, debuting a fresh way for low-budget space missions to reach orbit.

Delta 4

Isolated showers, gusty winds expected for Thursday’s Delta 4 launch

December 1, 2014 Stephen Clark

Weather forecasters will watch for isolated rain showers and gusty winds that could delay Thursday’s launch of a Delta 4-Heavy rocket carrying NASA’s Orion space capsule on its first flight into orbit.

Mission Reports

Soyuz rocket deploys upgraded Russian navigation craft

December 1, 2014 Stephen Clark

A new navigation satellite lifted off aboard a Soyuz rocket Sunday and reached an orbital perch 12,000 miles above Earth to test upgraded capabilities aimed at improving positioning services for Russian military and civilian users.

News

Ground team ready to rouse Pluto probe for historic flyby

November 30, 2014 Stephen Clark

On the final stretch of a speedy nine-year trek through the solar system, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft will be awakened from hibernation Dec. 6 for an encounter with Pluto, a mysterious world that has captured imaginations and will soon be revealed in reality.

H-2A

Launch of Japanese asteroid probe delayed

November 30, 2014 Stephen Clark

Poor weather at the Tanegashima Space Center in Japan has grounded until at least Wednesday the launch of a $300 million robotic mission to fly to an asteroid, pick up samples and return them to Earth.

Mission Reports

Thanksgiving in space

November 27, 2014 Stephen Clark

Six people living on the International Space Station shared an out-of-this-world Thanksgiving dinner in orbit.

Mission Reports

Proton liftoff delayed by upper stage problem

November 27, 2014 Stephen Clark

A Proton rocket launch set will be delayed until December after Russian technicians discovered a faulty gyroscope on the launcher’s Breeze M upper stage.

Falcon 9

SpaceX hopes to recover rocket intact after next launch

November 26, 2014 Stephen Clark

SpaceX will test out new stabilizing fins that could help land the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket on a floating barge in the Atlantic Ocean after liftoff on a space station resupply mission in mid-December, according to Elon Musk, the company’s billionaire leader.

Delta 4

Previous flights of the Delta 4-Heavy

November 26, 2014 Justin Ray

As a United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket prepares to carry NASA’s Orion spaceship on its first orbital flight test, we look back at the seven previous Heavy launches.

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News Headlines

  • Rocket Lab launches 4 novel DiskSat satellites for U.S. Space Force, NASA
    December 18, 2025
  • Senate confirms Jared Isaacman as 15th NASA Administrator
    December 18, 2025
  • SpaceX flies Starlink mission using Falcon 9 booster flying for a 30th time
    December 17, 2025
  • SpaceX launches Wednesday morning Starlink mission from Kennedy Space Center
    December 16, 2025
  • Rocket Lab Electron rocket aborts liftoff at engine ignition
    December 15, 2025
  • ULA Atlas 5 launch puts Amazon’s 180th broadband satellite in low Earth orbit
    December 15, 2025
  • Falcon 9 launch of 29 Starlink satellites from the Kennedy Space Center delayed to Wednesday
    December 14, 2025
  • SpaceX launches 100th Falcon 9 rocket from Florida in 2025
    December 14, 2025
  • SpaceX completes 550th booster landing amid Saturday night Falcon 9 flight
    December 13, 2025
  • Blue Origin halfway through 4-flight certification to allow launch of national security missions
    December 13, 2025
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