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October 12, 2025

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After two decades, the Webb telescope is finished and on the way to its launch site

September 30, 2021 Stephen Clark

A ship carrying the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope left a port in Southern California last weekend to begin a nearly two-week journey to Kourou, French Guiana, where it will begin final preparations for launch Dec. 18 on a European Ariane 5 rocket.

Live coverage: Dragon cargo ship departs space station, heads for splashdown

September 30, 2021 Stephen Clark

A SpaceX Cargo Dragon supply ship undocked from the International Space Station Thursday and headed for splashdown off the coast of Florida. The reusable cargo capsule departed the station at 9:12 a.m. EDT (1312 GMT). Splashdown off the east coast of Florida occurred at 10:57 p.m. EDT (0257 GMT).

Photos: Atlas 5 rocket lifts off from foggy Vandenberg Space Force Base

September 29, 2021 Stephen Clark

Shrouded in a veil of fog, an Atlas 5 rocket fired away from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California Monday with the Landsat 9 remote sensing satellite.

Chinese test satellite fails after launch

September 29, 2021 Stephen Clark

China’s classified Shiyan 10 test satellite failed after launching into orbit on a Long March 3B rocket Monday, Chinese state media said.

Planet co-founder among passengers on Blue Origin’s next suborbital spaceflight

September 28, 2021 Stephen Clark

The co-founders of the satellite remote sensing company Planet Labs and the clinical research software firm Medidata, both wealthy entrepreneurs, are two of the four passengers slated to launch to the edge of space next month on Blue Origin’s next suborbital flight.

Station crew relocates Soyuz spaceship to new Russian module

September 28, 2021 Stephen Clark

Two Russian cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut strapped into their Soyuz ferry ship Tuesday at the International Space Station and moved the craft to a new docking port on Russia’s Nauka lab module that arrived at the complex in July.

New eye on planet Earth rockets into orbit from California

September 27, 2021 Stephen Clark

NASA and United Launch Alliance deployed a new Landsat satellite in orbit Monday after liftoff on an Atlas 5 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, marking the 2,000th launch from the West Coast spaceport since 1958 and extending a series of Earth observations used by farmers, urban planners, and climate scientists.

Chinese smallsat launcher delivers remote sensing payload to space

September 27, 2021 Stephen Clark

A Chinese solid-fueled rocket blasted off from the Jiuquan launch base Monday and successfully deployed a small commercially-focused Earth-imaging satellite into polar orbit.

Launch timeline for Atlas 5’s mission with Landsat 9

September 27, 2021 Stephen Clark

A United Launch Atlas 5 rocket is set for launch with the Landsat 9 satellite, a joint project between NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey, and four small CubeSat rideshare payloads.

Live coverage: Atlas 5 rocket launches from Vandenberg Space Force Base

September 27, 2021 Stephen Clark

NASA and United Launch Alliance launched the Landsat 9 satellite aboard an Atlas 5 rocket Monday at 11:12 a.m. PDT (2:12 p.m. EDT; 1812 GMT) from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. The new satellite, developed in partnership with the U.S. Geological Survey, will extend an unbroken nearly 50-year record of environmental images.