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[ July 23, 2026 ] Live coverage: SpaceX ready for 2nd attempt to launch Starship Flight 13 following post-abort engine work Artemis
[ July 21, 2026 ] SpaceX launches novel geosynchronous robotic servicing satellite on decade-long mission Falcon 9
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NASA’s InSight lander bows out after ground-shaking Mars mission

December 21, 2022 Clive Simpson

Dust-laden solar panels and darker Martian skies have finally sealed the fate of NASA’s InSight mission, the agency announced Wednesday, after the intrepid lander delivered its final message from Mars at the end of its history-making mission to reveal the secrets of the Red Planet’s interior.

Two Pléiades Neo Earth-imaging satellites lost in failure of Europe’s Vega C rocket

December 21, 2022 Stephen Clark

The final two spacecraft in Airbus’s four-satellite, 600 million-euro commercial Pléiades Neo Earth observation fleet crashed into the Atlantic Ocean shortly after launch from French Guiana Tuesday night, falling victim to a failure of a European Vega C rocket.

Live coverage: Vega C fails after launch with two Earth observation satellites

December 20, 2022 Stephen Clark

Europe’s Vega C rocket failed a few minutes after launch from French Guiana at 8:47 p.m. EST Tuesday (0147 GMT Wednesday), falling back into the Atlantic Ocean north of the launch site. Two Pléiades Neo high-resolution optical Earth-imaging satellites for Airbus were destroyed in the failure.

Two Airbus Earth-imaging satellites poised for launch on Vega C rocket

December 19, 2022 Stephen Clark

Two Pléiades Neo Earth observation satellites are set to join Airbus’s constellation of high-resolution optical imagers with a launch Tuesday night from French Guiana on the first commercial flight of Europe’s Vega C rocket, a mission delayed from November to change out suspect hardware on the launcher’s payload fairing.

Russians assess flight worthiness of damaged Soyuz docked at space station

December 19, 2022 William Harwood

Russian managers are assessing whether a damaged Soyuz spacecraft docked at the International Space Station can safely carry its three-man crew back to Earth in late March as planned or whether a replacement must be launched to take its place, officials said Monday.

Live coverage: Rocket Lab launch on hold due to unfavorable winds aloft

December 18, 2022 Stephen Clark

Unfavorable upper level winds kept Rocket Lab’s Electron launcher on the ground Sunday night in Virginia. Overnight the company announced it would not try again on Monday due to a continuing forecast for strong upper level winds. The Electron rocket is to carry into orbit three commercial radio frequency monitoring satellites for HawkEye 360.

FAA clears Rocket Lab for first launch from U.S. spaceport

December 17, 2022 Stephen Clark

Rocket Lab said Saturday that the company received final approval from NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration to launch their first mission from the United States on Sunday, clearing final regulatory and technical hurdles with a new autonomous range safety destruct unit that delayed the launch more than two years.

SpaceX booster launches for record 15th time on Starlink mission

December 17, 2022 Stephen Clark

SpaceX launched 54 more Starlink internet satellites Saturday from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, using a Falcon 9 booster on its 15th flight to space, a record for the company’s reusable rocket fleet. The mission was also the third Falcon 9 rocket flight in less than 34 hours from SpaceX’s three active launch pads in less.

200th launch of SpaceX Falcon rocket boosts O3b mPOWER internet satellites

December 16, 2022 Stephen Clark

SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket Friday from Cape Canaveral on a mission to boost two high-power broadband satellites for SES’s O3b mPOWER network toward a unique equatorial orbit some 5,000 miles above Earth. It was the 200th launch by SpaceX’s Falcon rocket family since 2006.

SpaceX launches $1.2 billion U.S.-French satellite to survey world’s water

December 16, 2022 William Harwood

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a $1.2 billion NASA satellite early Friday to monitor Earth’s oceans, rivers and lakes with a high-power radar and other sensitive instruments to better assess the movement of the planet’s water and the impacts of climate change.