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[ January 14, 2026 ] Live coverage: SpaceX to launch midweek Starlink mission on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Falcon 9
[ January 13, 2026 ] U.S. Space Force switches rockets for upcoming GPS satellite launch Falcon 9
[ January 13, 2026 ] ISS gains new commander as Crew-11 prepares midweek departure Mission Reports
[ January 12, 2026 ] SpaceX launches 29 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Falcon 9
[ January 12, 2026 ] India’s PSLV suffers second consecutive launch failure, 16 satellites lost Mission Reports

India seeks to join exclusive company with ambitious moon mission

July 13, 2019 Stephen Clark

India’s ambitious $142 million Chandrayaan 2 moon mission, comprising a orbiter, lander and rover, is set for liftoff Sunday to begin a nearly two-month transit culminating in a touchdown near the lunar south pole in September.

Live coverage: Proton rocket lifts off with X-ray astronomy observatory

July 13, 2019 Stephen Clark

A Proton rocket lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan with the Spektr-RG X-ray astronomy mission at 1230:57 GMT (8:30:57 a.m. EDT) Saturday.

GSLV Mk.3 rolls out for launch of Indian moon mission

July 12, 2019 Stephen Clark

The 142-foot-tall rocket that will send aloft India’s Chandrayaan 2 moon mission Sunday has arrived on its launch pad on the Indian east coast.

Proton launch delayed to Saturday

July 12, 2019 Stephen Clark

Russian officials have delayed until Saturday the launch of a Proton rocket from Kazakhstan with the Spektr-RG X-ray astronomy observatory, an ambitious mission jointly developed with Germany to probe dark energy.

ULA delays Atlas 5 launch to August

July 11, 2019 Stephen Clark

United Launch Alliance is pushing back its next Atlas 5 launch from Cape Canaveral until no earlier than Aug. 8, allowing time for engineers to ensure an unspecified anomaly during component testing at a supplier will have no impact on the Atlas 5’s mission to place a U.S. Air Force communications satellite into orbit.

Japanese spacecraft snags second sample from asteroid

July 11, 2019 Stephen Clark

Scientists celebrated another success with Japan’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft late Wednesday (U.S. time), when the robot explorer accomplished a second pinpoint touch-and-go landing on asteroid Ryugu, this time to collect a sample of pristine dust and rock excavated by an explosive impactor earlier this year.

UAE military satellite lost in Vega launch failure

July 11, 2019 Stephen Clark

A European Vega launcher failed Wednesday night around two minutes after liftoff from French Guiana and fell into the Atlantic Ocean, destroying an Airbus-built surveillance satellite for the United Arab Emirates.

Four Russian military satellites launched from Plesetsk Cosmodrome

July 11, 2019 Stephen Clark

Four unidentified Russian military satellites rode a modified Soyuz booster into orbit Wednesday from a remote space base north of Moscow.

Drop test moves Virgin Orbit closer to first satellite launch

July 10, 2019 Stephen Clark

A full-scale model of Virgin Orbit’s air-dropped small satellite launcher, filled with water and antifreeze instead of rocket fuel, dropped from the wing of a modified Boeing 747 carrier jet Wednesday over a test range at Edwards Air Force Base in California, paving the way for the company’s first space mission later this year.

Vega launch timeline with Falcon Eye 1

July 10, 2019 Stephen Clark

The Falcon Eye 1 military reconnaissance satellite for the United Arab Emirates is set to ride a Vega launcher into a 379-mile-high (611-kilometer) orbit Wednesday night from French Guiana on a mission that will take less than one hour from liftoff until spacecraft separation.