Mission Reports

March 11, 2026

Breaking News

[ March 10, 2026 ] NASA inspector general assesses agency’s management of moon lander risk Artemis
[ March 9, 2026 ] SpaceX launches direct television satellite for EchoStar Falcon 9
[ March 7, 2026 ] NASA contract confirms selection of ULA’s Centaur 5 as new upper stage for the SLS rocket Artemis
[ March 6, 2026 ] SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket launch from Vandenberg SFB Sunday Falcon 9
[ March 5, 2026 ] Spanish launch startup PLD Space raises $209 million to scale its rocket production Miura 5

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