Mission Reports – Page 3 – Spaceflight Now

April 20, 2018

Breaking News

[ April 20, 2018 ] Orbital ATK names new launcher, selects upper stage engine News
[ April 19, 2018 ] Bridenstine narrowly confirmed in Senate to become next NASA chief News
[ April 19, 2018 ] Russian communications satellite launched aboard Proton rocket Mission Reports
[ 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

ISRO launches for second time in two weeks

April 11, 2018

Riding a column of red-hot rocket exhaust, an Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle fired into orbit Wednesday with a replacement satellite for the country’s home-grown navigation network.

SpaceX rocket test-fired at Cape Canaveral for NASA telescope launch

April 11, 2018

SpaceX’s launch team loaded super-chilled liquid propellants into a two-stage Falcon 9 rocket Wednesday and fired the booster’s nine first stage engines at Cape Canaveral, marching toward liftoff Monday with a NASA observatory built to find planets around other stars in our galactic neighborhood.

Photos: PSLV poised for navigation satellite launch

April 11, 2018

India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle sits on its launch pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Center on the country’s eastern coastline, awaiting blastoff with the IRNSS 1I navigation satellite.

Live coverage: India’s PSLV climbs into space with navigation satellite

April 11, 2018

India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle lifted off at 2234 GMT (6:34 p.m. EDT) Wednesday with the country’s ninth navigation satellite, bolstering a regional positioning and timing network after the loss of a navigation craft on a previous PSLV mission last year.

Chinese Long March 4C rocket deploys four satellites in orbit

April 10, 2018

Three Chinese military surveillance spacecraft and an experimental nanosatellite rode a Long March 4C rocket into orbit Tuesday.

Investigation into Zuma failure reportedly lays blame on Northrop Grumman

April 9, 2018

Government investigators have exonerated SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket in the loss of a top secret space mission known as Zuma in January, blaming a malfunction in a component modified by Northrop Grumman that connected the launcher with its classified payload, according to the Wall Street Journal.

NASA’s InSight lander inside one month to launch toward Mars

April 8, 2018

NASA’s InSight Mars lander will be buttoned up for launch in the coming weeks at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, in preparation for its hoisting atop an Atlas 5 rocket for blastoff in the predawn hours of May 5.

Rocket Lab preps for first commercial satellite launch

April 6, 2018

Rocket Lab’s first full-up commercial launch is set for April 19, U.S. time, from the company’s privately-operated launch base in New Zealand with three U.S.-owned satellites to collect weather data.

Ariane 5 returns to service with dual-satellite launch

April 5, 2018

Boosted by two solid-fueled motors and a hydrogen-burning main engine, a European Ariane 5 rocket took off Thursday from French Guiana with a Japanese military communications payload and a U.S.-built, British-owned broadband satellite, returning to service after a January mission placed two spacecraft in the wrong orbit.

Video: Ariane 5 rocket lifts off with communications satellites

April 5, 2018

A European Ariane 5 rocket climbed off its launch pad in French Guiana with nearly 3 million pounds of thrust Thursday, carrying two communications satellites to orbit for the Japanese military and British-based Avanti Communications.

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