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August 18, 2019

Breaking News

[ August 17, 2019 ] China’s Jielong 1 smallsat launcher successful on first flight Mission Reports
[ August 16, 2019 ] NASA directs Alabama space center to manage lunar lander program Mission Reports
[ August 16, 2019 ] Live coverage: Rocket Lab launch delayed to Monday Mission Reports
[ August 15, 2019 ] Smallsat companies teaming up on deorbit experiment Mission Reports
[ August 15, 2019 ] Photos: Atlas 5 blasts off with U.S. Air Force communications payload Atlas 5

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.

Watch the Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon arrive at the launch pad (members only)

March 1, 2019

The Crew Dragon and Falcon 9 rocket roll to the launch pad on a foggy Florida morning before going upright shortly before sunset later in the day.

Q&A with Greg Wyler, founder and chairman of OneWeb (members only)

February 27, 2019

Greg Wyler has corralled blue-chip companies to invest in his dream to beam affordable broadband Internet signals around the world, a mission he sees as a prerequisite to providing billions of unconnected, underserved people with the tools necessary to succeed in a modern marketplace of goods, services and information.

Watch live views of the Crew Dragon launch pad (members only)

February 26, 2019

Watch live views of launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center as SpaceX prepares to launch the Crew Dragon on its first test flight.

Watch the launch of a Falcon 9 with natural sound

February 23, 2019

The launch of the Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Nusantara Satu communications satellite, formerly known as PSN 6, SpaceIL’s lunar lander, named Beresheet, and the Air Force Research Laboratory’s S5 space situational awareness satellite.

Q&A with Opher Doron, general manager of IAI’s space division (members only)

February 20, 2019

Opher Doron leads the space division at Israel Aerospace Industries, a satellite and aviation contractor that led the industrial team behind the privately-funded Beresheet lander heading to the moon.

Q&A with Jamie Bock, principal investigator of NASA’s SPHEREx mission (members only)

February 14, 2019

Jamie Bock, a professor of physics at Caltech, is principal investigator of the SPHEREx astrophysics mission selected by NASA on Feb. 13 as the next medium-class mission in the agency’s line of Explorer probes.

Q&A with Emiliano Kargieman, founder and CEO of Satellogic (members only)

January 29, 2019

Emiliano Kargieman leads Satellogic, an Argentinian company founded in 2010 to develop a fleet of small satellites designed to cover the globe with high-resolution mapping images at least once every week, supplying data to customers in the oil and gas, agricultural and forestry, and government sectors.

Video: Zoomed in view of ignition of Falcon 9 engines in prelaunch test (members only)

January 25, 2019

Watch a zoomed in view of the Falcon 9 rocket with the first Crew Dragon capsule atop, briefly fire its engines for a crucial pre-launch test on Jan. 24, 2019 at launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center.

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