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[ March 19, 2019 ] Beresheet lander on course for the moon Mission Reports
[ March 19, 2019 ] NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft finds particles flying off asteroid Bennu Mission Reports
[ March 16, 2019 ] Delta 4 rocket launches Air Force’s 10th WGS broadband satellite Delta 4
[ March 15, 2019 ] Delta 4 rocket’s launch timeline with WGS 10 Delta 4
[ March 15, 2019 ] Photos: Mobile gantry retracted at Delta 4 launch pad Delta 4

Video: Falcon 9 fires engines at pad 39A ahead of Es’hail 2 launch (members only)

November 13, 2018

Watch a video replay of Monday night’s hotfire of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The rocket is set for launch Thursday with Qatar’s Es’hail 2 communications satellite.

Live from Launch Pad 39A (members only)

November 10, 2018

A live view of launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center where SpaceX is getting ready to launch the launch the Es’hail 2 communications satellite.

Q&A with Marc Rayman, chief engineer on NASA’s Dawn mission (members only)

November 1, 2018

Marc Rayman is chief engineer on NASA’s Dawn mission, which has run out of fuel after a 11-year interplanetary journey that explored Vesta and Ceres, the two largest objects in the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

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.

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