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[ June 4, 2023 ] Live coverage: SpaceX delays space station cargo launch until Monday Falcon 9
[ June 4, 2023 ] More second-gen Starlink satellites launch on Falcon 9 rocket Falcon 9
[ June 3, 2023 ] Live coverage: Three Chinese astronauts return to Earth Mission Reports
[ June 2, 2023 ] Webb spots vast plume of water vapor spewing from Saturn’s moon Enceladus News
[ June 2, 2023 ] Third set of upgraded solar arrays ready for ride to International Space Station Falcon 9

Assembly complete for NASA’s asteroid sample return spacecraft

October 25, 2015 Stephen Clark

NASA’s first asteroid-sampling probe, OSIRIS-REx, has been assembled at a Lockheed Martin satellite factory in Colorado and is now being tested to ensure it can withstand the harsh journey to an asteroid and back.

Atlas 5/GPS 2F-11 launch timeline

October 25, 2015 Justin Ray

Follow the Atlas 5 rocket’s ascent into orbit from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 41 launch pad with the U.S. Air Force’s GPS 2F-11 navigation satellite. Launch is scheduled for Friday at 12:17 p.m. EDT (1617 GMT).

Record-breaking Hurricane Patricia viewed from orbit

October 23, 2015 Stephen Clark

Astronauts on the International Space Station and a fleet of Earth-watching satellites caught views of Hurricane Patricia, the most powerful cyclone on record in the Western Hemisphere, after the storm exploded in strength to become a monster Category 5 hurricane Friday.

NASA completes SLS design review, confirms rocket to be orange

October 23, 2015 Stephen Clark

NASA has finished the design of the Space Launch System, a huge rocket to boost astronaut crews farther from Earth than ever before, and formally decided the launcher’s cryogenic core stage will be burnt orange, the same color as the space shuttle’s external fuel tank, officials announced Thursday.

Oxia Planum tops list of landing sites for ExoMars rover

October 22, 2015 Stephen Clark

Scientists have selected Oxia Planum, a shallow basin connected to dried up channels carved by ancient water flows, as the prime landing site for Europe’s first Mars rover set for launch in 2018.

Atlas 5 receives payload for third launch this month

October 22, 2015 Justin Ray

Heading to space next week to replace a 12-year-old satellite in the Global Positioning System navigation network, a modernized spacecraft was placed atop its Atlas 5 launcher Wednesday.

Putin blasts mismanagement at new Russian spaceport

October 20, 2015 Stephen Clark

The first launch from Russia’s new cosmodrome in the country’s Far East will not occur until at least early 2016, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced last week, in a widely-anticipated delay after reports of botched construction and corruption beleaguering the spaceport project.

NASA to post new ‘blue marble’ pictures every day

October 19, 2015 Stephen Clark

Your daily dose of planet Earth is now just a click away, thanks to a new NASA website hosting photos looking back at the world from a small satellite stationed almost a million miles away, realizing a dream of former Vice President Al Gore nearly two decades ago.

Imagery from Friday’s fiery Proton rocket launch

October 19, 2015 Stephen Clark

Turkey’s newest communications satellite soared into space from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Friday, and these spectacular images show the middle-of-the-night liftoff of the spacecraft’s Russian Proton rocket booster before it disappeared into low clouds.

Cassini transmits home first views of Enceladus’ north pole

October 19, 2015 Stephen Clark

Rushing past Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus at dizzying speed, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft took its first pictures of the captivating object’s sunlit north pole last week, revealing cracks in the moon’s frozen crust and crater fields extending dozens of miles across.