Mission Reports – Page 2 – Spaceflight Now

September 30, 2023

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[ September 28, 2023 ] Launch of NASA’s Psyche asteroid mission slips a week due to spacecraft issue Falcon Heavy
[ September 27, 2023 ] Soyuz lands safely in Kazakhstan to end record-breaking mission; Rubio: “It’s good to be home” News
[ September 27, 2023 ] Live coverage: Space station crew return to Earth after 371-day mission News
[ September 27, 2023 ] Rapid response Victus Nox launch success open new possibilities for Space Force, commercial space industry News
[ September 26, 2023 ] Two cosmonauts, NASA astronaut head for Wednesday landing after yearlong mission News

Space station astronauts continue power system upgrades with new solar array

June 15, 2023 Stephen Clark

NASA astronauts Woody Hoburg and Steve Bowen ventured back outside the International Space Station Thursday for their second spacewalk in six days to install and deploy another roll-out solar array to augment the power system on the orbiting laboratory.

SpaceX nails 200th rocket landing after launch with 72 small satellites

June 12, 2023 Stephen Clark

SpaceX launched 72 small payloads into polar orbit from California’s Central Coast Monday, delivering satellites to space for customers around the world while accomplishing the 200th landing of a Falcon rocket since the first booster recovery in 2015.

Live coverage: SpaceX’s Transporter 8 rideshare mission lifts off from California

June 12, 2023 Stephen Clark

SpaceX launched a cluster of 72 small payloads for customers in at least 18 countries into polar orbit from California Monday on the company’s eighth small satellite rideshare mission. The mission, known as Transporter 8, lifted off at 2:35 p.m. PDT (5:35 p.m. EDT; 2135 UTC).

SpaceX launches another 52 Starlink internet satellites

June 12, 2023 Stephen Clark

SpaceX’s 40th launch of the year sent another batch of 52 Starlink internet satellites into orbit from Cape Canaveral early Monday aboard a Falcon 9 rocket.

Astronauts install new roll-out solar array outside International Space Station

June 9, 2023 Stephen Clark

Astronauts Steve Bowen and Woody Hoburg suited up and floated outside the International Space Station Friday for a spacewalk to install and unroll an upgraded solar array wing delivered to the complex earlier this week by a SpaceX Cargo Dragon supply ship.

NASA concerned SpaceX’s Starship schedule could delay moon landing

June 7, 2023 Stephen Clark

A senior NASA official raised concerns Wednesday that “difficulties” with SpaceX’s development of the huge new Starship rocket could delay the Artemis program’s first moon landing with astronauts from late 2025, a mission that will use a derivative of the Starship vehicle to ferry a two-person crew to and from the lunar surface.

ULA test-fires first Vulcan rocket at Cape Canaveral

June 7, 2023 Stephen Clark

United Launch Alliance’s first Vulcan Centaur rocket completed a critical test-firing of its Blue Origin-built BE-4 main engines Wednesday night, clearing one of two remaining technical hurdles before the launcher is cleared for its inaugural flight later this year.

Cargo Dragon docks at space station

June 6, 2023 William Harwood

Closing out an automated 18-hour rendezvous, a SpaceX Dragon cargo ship loaded with 7,000 pounds of supplies and equipment, including two add-on roll-out solar blankets, caught up with the International Space Station early Tuesday and moved in for a problem-free docking.

SpaceX launch sends upgraded solar arrays to International Space Station

June 5, 2023 Stephen Clark

SpaceX’s 28th resupply mission to the International Space Station lifted off Monday from the Kennedy Space Center, carrying new solar arrays, fresh food, and experiments to sustain research and upgrade the power system on the orbiting laboratory.

More second-gen Starlink satellites launch on Falcon 9 rocket

June 4, 2023 Stephen Clark

SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Sunday morning with 22 upgraded Starlink internet satellites, but officials called off a second Falcon 9 launch later in the day due to high winds in the booster’s offshore recovery area.