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Space station crew ready to close out 167-day mission

March 10, 2015 Stephen Clark

Two Russian cosmonauts and a U.S. Navy test pilot will buckle into custom-molded seats inside a Soyuz spaceship Wednesday, undock from the International Space Station and head for a parachute-assisted landing in Kazakhstan to close out a 167-day space voyage.

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Liftoff of Indian navigation satellite postponed

March 4, 2015 Stephen Clark

The launch of a satellite for India’s indigenous navigation network has been postponed to resolve a problem with one of the spacecraft’s radio transmitters, officials said Wednesday.

Falcon 9

Photos: Last look at Sunday’s launch by SpaceX

March 4, 2015 Stephen Clark

Sunday’s liftoff of a Falcon 9 rocket marked the 16th flight of SpaceX’s workhorse launcher, and its third mission of the year. Here is another set of launch photos from SpaceX.

Falcon 9

Reader-submitted shots of Falcon 9 launch

March 2, 2015 Stephen Clark

Spaceflight Now readers sent in photos of Sunday’s blastoff of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, which lit up a late-night moonlit sky over Florida’s Space Coast on the way to orbit with two communications satellites.

Falcon 9

Plasma-driven satellites launched from Cape Canaveral

March 2, 2015 Stephen Clark

Two communications satellites blasted off Sunday aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, kicking off more than a half-year of novel maneuvers in orbit using plasma drive engines to position the spacecraft 22,300 miles above Earth and link the Americas, Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

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Photos: Falcon 9 stands ready to launch dual-satellite stack

March 1, 2015 Stephen Clark

SpaceX’s 22-story Falcon 9 rocket stands on Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad Sunday, hours before the scheduled liftoff of a pair of commercial communications satellites for Eutelsat and Asia Broadcast Satellite.

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Astronauts install antennas for commercial crew capsules

March 1, 2015 William Harwood

Astronauts Terry Virts and space station commander Barry “Butch” Wilmore ventured back outside Sunday for their third spacewalk in eight days to complete initial preparations for upcoming dockings by commercially developed Boeing and SpaceX crew ferry ships.

Falcon 9

Boeing’s first two all-electric satellites ready for launch

March 1, 2015 Stephen Clark

A new class of Boeing-built spacecraft will fly into orbit for the first time Sunday aboard a Falcon 9 rocket, combining Boeing’s electric propulsion technology with SpaceX’s bargain launch prices to send up communications satellites at a fraction of the typical cost.

Falcon 9

Photos: Satellites readied for tandem launch on Falcon 9

February 28, 2015 Stephen Clark

Two communications spacecraft built by Boeing and owned by Eutelsat and Asia Broadcast Satellite will ride a Falcon 9 rocket into orbit Sunday, and these pictures show the satellites stacked together and prepared for liftoff from Cape Canaveral.

Falcon 9

Falcon 9 launch timeline with Eutelsat 115 West B and ABS 3A

February 28, 2015 Stephen Clark

Follow the key events of the Falcon 9 rocket’s ascent into space from Cape Canaveral with the Eutelsat 115 West B and ABS 3A communications satellite.

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