Mission Reports

May 23, 2025

Breaking News

[ May 20, 2025 ] New Falcon 9 booster makes its debut on Starlink delivery mission Falcon 9
[ May 19, 2025 ] SpaceX scrubs Monday night Falcon 9 launch minutes before liftoff Falcon 9
[ May 19, 2025 ] Department of the Air Force issues draft documents for new SpaceX launch site at Vandenberg Space Force Base Mission Reports
[ May 16, 2025 ] SpaceX launches 1,000th Starlink satellite of the year during Friday morning mission Falcon 9
[ May 14, 2025 ] Axiom Mission 4 delayed due to Dragon capsule readiness Mission Reports

X-37B space plane scheduled to return to Earth soon

October 13, 2014 Stephen Clark

A robotic U.S. Air Force space plane is set to land in California as soon as this week after a secretive 22-month flight hundreds of miles above Earth.

Winds sensor opens door for Earth science from ISS

October 12, 2014 Stephen Clark

A $26 million science instrument carried to the International Space Station by SpaceX’s Dragon cargo capsule has been switched on and is measuring winds over the world’s oceans to help forecasters track the intensity of tropical cyclones, NASA officials said.

Galileo launch failure blamed on frozen Fregat fuel line

October 8, 2014 Stephen Clark

A design flaw in a Russian Fregat upper stage was responsible for the botched orbital injection of two European Galileo navigation satellites in August, causing hydrazine fuel to freeze inside the rocket’s maneuvering system and rendering it unable to point in the right direction during a critical engine burn.

H-2A rocket launch in photos

October 8, 2014 Stephen Clark

A Japanese weather satellite launched Tuesday aboard an H-2A rocket, beginning a mission to monitor tropical cyclones and storm systems over East Asia and the Western Pacific.

Station crew completes maintenance spacewalk

October 7, 2014 William Harwood

Working outside the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman and European Space Agency crewmate Alexander Gerst successfully moved a failed ammonia pump module to an external stowage platform, completing a task originally planned for a repair spacewalk last December.

H-2A rocket boosts Japanese weather satellite into orbit

October 7, 2014 Stephen Clark

Japan has launched a next-generation geostationary weather satellite on the 25th flight of the country’s H-2A rocket, deploying an upgraded meteorological observatory critical to the minute-by-minute tracking of tropical cyclones and other storm systems across the Asia-Pacific.

X-37B space plane scheduled to return to Earth soon

Winds sensor opens door for Earth science from ISS

Galileo launch failure blamed on frozen Fregat fuel line

H-2A rocket launch in photos

Station crew completes maintenance spacewalk

H-2A rocket boosts Japanese weather satellite into orbit

Upgraded Japanese weather satellite set for launch

H-2A rolls out to launch pad

H-2A rocket diagram

H-2A rocket ground track