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September 16, 2019

Breaking News

[ September 16, 2019 ] NASA, ESA officials seek formal approvals for Mars sample return mission News
[ September 12, 2019 ] NASA lunar orbiter to image Chandrayaan 2 landing site Mission Reports
[ September 12, 2019 ] SES selects SpaceX for two Falcon 9 launches Falcon 9
[ September 12, 2019 ] China launches Earth-observing satellites, solar sail experiment Mission Reports
[ September 10, 2019 ] Space station cargo mission grounded by launch pad fire Mission Reports

Delta 4 launch seen from press viewing site (members only)

August 22, 2019

The final Delta 4 Medium rocket lifts off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on August 22, 2019, carrying into orbit the U.S. Air Force’s GPS 3 SV02 navigation satellite.

Atlas 5 launches AEHF 5 as seen from Kennedy Space Center (members only)

August 8, 2019

An Atlas 5 lifts off at dawn creating a spectacular sky show as it races toward orbit carrying the fifth Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF 5) communications satellite for the U.S. Air Force.

Video: Atlas 5 rolls out to launch pad with the Air Force’s AEHF 5 comsat (members only)

August 6, 2019

Spaceflight Now Members can watch a time-lapse replay of the Atlas 5 rocket’s rollout to pad 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station before the launch of the U.S. Air Force’s AEHF 5 communications satellite.

Video: Falcon 9 fires up engines for static fire test (members only)

July 19, 2019

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket fired its nine first stage engines for a brief hold-down firing Friday at Cape Canaveral, passing a key milestone before launch July 24 with a Dragon space station resupply ship.

Orion abort test post-launch briefing (members only)

July 2, 2019

Watch NASA’s Orion inflight abort test post-launch news briefing, held at the Kennedy Space Center two hours after the test.

Watch a 4K video replay of Falcon Heavy’s static fire test (members only)

June 20, 2019

SpaceX test-fired a Falcon Heavy rocket Wednesday night at the Kennedy Space Center in preparation for launch June 24 with a stack of weather observation and technology demonstration satellites.

Watch time-lapse of Falcon Heavy going upright (members only)

June 19, 2019

In this time-lapse video, a Falcon Heavy rocket is lifted into position atop launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in readiness for a pre-flight test firing of its 27 Merlin main engines.

Watch live views of the Falcon Heavy launch pad (members only)

June 18, 2019

Watch live views of launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center as SpaceX prepares for the first night launch of a Falcon Heavy rocket.

Q&A with Elon Musk, founder and CEO of SpaceX (members only)

May 17, 2019

Elon Musk, SpaceX’s founder and chief executive, spoke with reporters via conference call May 15 as the company prepared for the launch of the first 60 satellites to build out a network of potentially thousands of broadband relay stations in low Earth orbit providing high-speed Internet to consumers around the world.

Q&A with Keith Gendreau, principal investigator of the first X-ray space communications experiment (members only)

May 7, 2019

Keith Gendreau, an astrophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, recently spoke with Spaceflight Now about a new experiment on the International Space Station to demonstrate X-ray communications in space for the first time.

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