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Live coverage: NASA’s Artemis 1 rocket rolls back to VAB for hurricane protection
NASA rolled the Space Launch System moon rocket back to the Vehicle Assembly Building early Tuesday at the Kennedy Space Center, moving the more than 30-story-tall launcher to safety as Hurricane Ian threatens Florida. The decision to roll the rocket back to the VAB will likely delay launch of the Artemis 1 lunar test flight until November.
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Live coverage: NASA’s DART spacecraft intentionally slams into asteroid
NASA’s DART spacecraft made a high-speed impact with asteroid Dimorphos in an experiment to demonstrate a technique that could be used in the future to push a potentially hazardous asteroid off a track toward Earth. The spacecraft hit the asteroid nearly 7 million miles from Earth at 7:14 p.m. EDT (2314 GMT) Monday.
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Delta 4-Heavy rocket deploys spysat on final planned mission from ‘Slick Six’
United Launch Alliance sent a triple-core Delta 4-Heavy with a top secret U.S. government spy satellite into orbit Saturday from California’s Central Coast, closing out a chapter in the tangled history of a launch pad originally built to support military astronaut missions on Titan rockets and space shuttles. Two more Delta 4-Heavy rockets are left in ULA’s inventory for launches in 2023 and 2024 from Cape Canaveral.
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Live coverage: Delta 4-Heavy rocket launches from California
United Launch Alliance’s Delta 4-Heavy rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 3:25 p.m. PDT (6:25 p.m. EDT; 2225 GMT) Saturday with a classified spacecraft for the National Reconnaissance Office, the U.S. government’s spy satellite agency. The heavy-lifter launched for the final time from California, with two more Delta 4-Heavy flights remaining from Cape Canaveral before the rocket’s retirement.
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Photos: Delta 4-Heavy rocket on the launch pad in California
These views show United Launch Alliance’s 233-foot-tall Delta 4-Heavy rocket standing on Space Launch Complex-6 at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on the eve of liftoff with a classified spy satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office. This will be the final Delta launch from the West Coast.