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October 23, 2018

Breaking News

[ October 20, 2018 ] Ariane 5 launches two satellites on 7-year voyage to Mercury Ariane 5
[ October 19, 2018 ] Photos: BepiColombo stacked for launch to Mercury Ariane 5
[ October 19, 2018 ] Live coverage: Probe heading to Mercury blasts off from French Guiana Ariane 5
[ October 18, 2018 ] Photos: Atlas 5 rocket lifts off with Air Force’s AEHF 4 satellite Atlas 5
[ October 17, 2018 ] Air Force’s fourth AEHF communications satellite successfully launched from Florida Atlas 5

SpaceX conducts engine test fire for communications satellite launch (members only)

September 6, 2018

SpaceX test fires a Falcon 9 rocket in readiness for its planned 8 September 2018 launch carrying the Telstar 18 VANTAGE communications satellite.

Q&A with Dan Hart, president and CEO of Virgin Orbit (members only)

August 31, 2018

Dan Hart leads a staff of hundreds of engineers and technicians developing LauncherOne, a commercial air-launched booster intended to hurl small satellites weighing up to 1,100 pounds (500 kilograms) into orbit.

Watch a time-lapse of the Crew Dragon access arm installation (members only)

August 20, 2018

The access arm that will be used by astronauts boarding SpaceX’s Crew Dragon space capsule was installed on the gantry at launch complex 39A on August 20, 2018.

Q&A with Andrew Driesman, project manager for Parker Solar Probe (members only)

July 31, 2018

Andrew Driesman is project manager for NASA’s Parker Solar Probe mission at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, leading a team of engineers and operators in charge of the first mission to fly through the sun’s atmosphere.

Video: Falcon 9 soars to orbit blowing smoke rings on the way (members only)

July 23, 2018

Spaceflight Now’s camera records the ascent of the second Falcon 9 block 5 rocket carrying the Telstar 19 VANTAGE communications satellite. Watch for smoke rings as the vehicle passes goes supersonic.

Q&A with Heino Falcke, principal investigator of the Netherlands-China Low-Frequency Explorer (members only)

June 1, 2018

Heino Falcke, an accomplished radio astronomer at Radboud University in the Netherlands, leads a team of European scientists and engineers who developed a scientific receiver flying on China’s Queqiao spacecraft flying to a point in space beyond the far side of the moon.

Q&A with Mimi Aung, Mars Helicopter project manager at JPL (members only)

May 14, 2018

Mimi Aung leads a cadre of engineers developing the Mars Helicopter, an aerial drone set to fly to the Red Planet with the Mars 2020 rover.

Q&A with Bruce Banerdt, principal investigator on NASA’s InSight mission (members only)

May 3, 2018

Bruce Banerdt leads the InSight science team, and is in charge of the lander heading for Mars to study the red planet’s interior structure, collecting data that should yield new information about the environment in the early solar system, when planets coalesced and formed 4.5 billion years ago.

Falcon 9 launches TESS as seen from KSC Press Site (members only)

April 18, 2018

A Falcon 9 rocket soars skyward from Cape Canaveral carrying NASA’s TESS observatory on a mission to discover planets around other stars. This was the view from the Kennedy Space Center Press Site.

Q&A with Sara Seager, deputy director of science on NASA’s TESS mission (members only)

April 15, 2018

Sara Seager is an astrophysicist and planetary scientist at MIT, and she serves as deputy science director on NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, which aims to find planets around stars relatively close to the sun, searching for worlds that are ideal follow-up targets for missions like the James Webb Space Telescope.

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