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April 19, 2018

Breaking News

[ April 19, 2018 ] Falcon 9 / TESS launch replays Falcon 9
[ April 19, 2018 ] All-sky surveyor launched from Cape Canaveral on the hunt for exoplanets Falcon 9
[ April 18, 2018 ] Spaceflight reserves two rideshare missions on Vega rocket Mission Reports
[ April 17, 2018 ] Potential contamination not a concern for space station’s new lightning instrument Falcon 9
[ April 17, 2018 ] Rocket Lab postpones first commercial launch after issue during fueling test Mission Reports

4K video of the Falcon Heavy hot fire (members only)

January 25, 2018

The Falcon Heavy engine test firing at launch pad 39A seen in 4K high resolution video. The engines fired at 12:30pm EST (1730 GMT) on 24 January 2018 as part of a crucial pre-launch test.

Atlas 5 launch as seen from the KSC Press Site (members only)

January 20, 2018

An Atlas 5 rocket lifts off from launch complex 41 at Cape Canaveral carrying the SBIRS GEO-4 missile early warning satellite in this video shot from the Kennedy Space Center Press Site.

Video: Falcon 9 launch with natural sound (members only)

January 8, 2018

Watch a view of the launch of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket on Jan. 7 from Cape Canaveral with the U.S. government’s top secret Zuma payload.

Members only: Press site view of SpaceX’s 13th space station resupply launch

December 15, 2017

Watch a replay of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifting off from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad Friday, as seen from the Kennedy Space Center press site five miles away.

Live coverage: Falcon 9 rocket conducts static fire test

November 11, 2017

SpaceX test-fired its next Falcon 9 rocket at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Saturday in preparation for the company’s 17th launch of the year, a mission tentatively set for liftoff Wednesday with a secretive payload named Zuma for the U.S. government.

Live coverage: SpaceX’s next Falcon 9 moved to launch pad for hotfire test

October 26, 2017

SpaceX launch crews rolled out the company’s next Falcon 9 rocket to pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, then lifted the two-stage launcher vertical for a hold-down engine firing Thursday in preparation for launch next week with a South Korean-owned commercial communications satellite.

Q&A with Josef Aschbacher, director of ESA’s Earth observation programs (members only)

October 13, 2017

Josef Aschbacher, head of ESA’s Earth observation programs, recently spoke with Spaceflight Now about the importance of the Sentinel 5P satellite mission designed for air quality measurements from space, and discussed increasing data usage from Europe’s Copernicus environmental network, and plans to expand the flagship Earth observation fleet.

Q&A with Eric Smith, JWST program director

September 29, 2017

NASA’s senior manager in charge of the development of the James Webb Space Telescope, Eric Smith, recently spoke with Spaceflight Now about the decision to reschedule its launch from October 2018 to the spring of 2019.

Q&A with Carol Raymond, deputy principal investigator on NASA’s Dawn mission

September 27, 2017

Carol Raymond helps lead the Dawn science team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, where she oversees research investigating comets and asteroids, including the two objects visited during Dawn’s decade-long mission: Vesta and Ceres.

Q&A with Peter Beck, founder and CEO of Rocket Lab

August 11, 2017

Peter Beck, the founder and chief executive of Rocket Lab, recently discussed the outcome of the company’s first attempted orbital test flight and plans for future missions.

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