Mission Reports

August 15, 2026

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Live coverage: Vega rocket fails during launch of UAE surveillance satellite

July 10, 2019 Stephen Clark

A Vega rocket faltered minutes after liftoff from French Guiana at 9:53 p.m. EDT Wednesday (0153 GMT) and failed to reach orbit with a European-built reconnaissance satellite for the United Arab Emirates. The payload and launcher fell into the Atlantic Ocean, marking the first failure for the solid-fueled Vega launch vehicle.

Proton rocket and astronomy satellite back on the launch pad after battery replacement

July 9, 2019 Stephen Clark

Poised to loft a Russian-German X-ray astronomy observatory into space Friday, a Proton rocket returned to its launch pad Tuesday at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan after a three-week delay to replace a drained battery on the vehicle.

India’s first moon lander stacked for launch

July 9, 2019 Stephen Clark

India’s first lunar lander has been hoisted on top of its GSLV Mk.3 rocket ahead of a liftoff scheduled for Sunday.

SpaceX wins NASA contract to launch X-ray telescope on reused rocket

July 8, 2019 Stephen Clark

NASA has selected a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket — flying with a reused first stage booster — to launch the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer mission from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida in April 2021, bypassing Northrop Grumman’s air-launched Pegasus rocket for the task.

Arianespace delays Vega launch to avoid unfavorable high-altitude winds

July 5, 2019 Stephen Clark

The launch from French Guiana of a solid-fueled Vega rocket with a European-built surveillance satellite for the United Arab Emirates has been postponed, Arianespace said, citing unfavorable high-altitude winds over the spaceport. Officials have not set a new target launch date.

Soyuz rocket and Fregat upper stage deliver 33 satellites to three different orbits

July 5, 2019 Stephen Clark

A new Russian weather satellite, a CubeSat to test a Silicon Valley startup’s water-based propulsion system, and eight more members of Spire’s commercial fleet of multipurpose nanosatellites were among 33 spacecraft that rode a Soyuz rocket into orbit Friday from Russia’s Far East.

Live coverage: Vega rocket fails during launch of UAE surveillance satellite

Proton rocket and astronomy satellite back on the launch pad after battery replacement

India’s first moon lander stacked for launch

SpaceX wins NASA contract to launch X-ray telescope on reused rocket

Arianespace delays Vega launch to avoid unfavorable high-altitude winds

Soyuz rocket and Fregat upper stage deliver 33 satellites to three different orbits

Photos: NASA conducts key Orion abort test

GPS satellite encapsulated for Delta 4 launch

Live coverage: Soyuz rideshare mission lifts off from Vostochny Cosmodrome

Russian Soyuz launcher set to carry 33 satellites into orbit