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July 16, 2019

Breaking News

[ July 15, 2019 ] Final assembly and test milestones on tap for NASA’s first Orion moon ship Mission Reports
[ July 14, 2019 ] Launch of Indian moon lander postponed by ‘technical snag’ GSLV
[ July 14, 2019 ] Made in Space wins NASA contract to 3D-print satellite structures in orbit News
[ July 14, 2019 ] Video highlights from Chandrayaan 2’s launch campaign GSLV
[ July 14, 2019 ] Live coverage: Indian moon launch scrubbed GSLV

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 NASA’s mobile launcher at pad 39B (members only)

June 27, 2019

Watch live video of the mobile launcher for the first Space Launch System (SLS) rocket as it stands at the gates to launch pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center.

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.

Video: Falcon 9 launch as seen from KSC press site (members only)

May 4, 2019

Watch a replay of the Falcon 9 rocket’s liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station as seen from the Kennedy Space Center press site roughly 4 miles away.

Video: Falcon 9 rocket fires engines in pre-launch test (members only)

April 27, 2019

SpaceX test-fired a Falcon 9 rocket Saturday at Cape Canaveral, a critical test before liftoff Wednesday with several tons of cargo heading to the International Space Station.

Q&A with Giulio Ranzo, CEO of Avio (members only)

March 21, 2019

Giulio Ranzo is the chief executive of Avio, the Italian company responsible for building the Vega rocket. Ranzo recently spoke with Spaceflight Now about the Vega rocket’s increasing launch rate, the debut of the new Vega C booster in 2020, and future plans to evolve the Vega design to compete with commercial microsatellite launchers.

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