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April 8, 2026

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[ April 5, 2026 ] Artemis astronauts send down Easter message, prep for lunar fly around Monday Artemis
[ April 3, 2026 ] ULA’s Atlas 5 rocket launches its heaviest payload ever with fifth Amazon Leo mission Atlas 5
[ April 2, 2026 ] Artemis 2 crew blasts off on historic moon mission Artemis
[ April 1, 2026 ] Live coverage: NASA to launch Artemis 2, its first Moon-bound mission with astronauts since 1972 Artemis
[ March 30, 2026 ] Falcon 9 booster launches for record 34th time on Starlink delivery mission Falcon 9

Upgraded Proton booster adds satellite to Intelsat’s fleet

June 9, 2016 Stephen Clark

Debuting lighter structural components to carry heavier satellites into orbit, a Russian Proton rocket fired into space from Kazakhstan on Thursday and successfully placed a U.S.-built television broadcast craft into orbit for Intelsat and DirecTV.

Video: Weather forces postponement of Delta 4-Heavy rocket launch

June 9, 2016 Justin Ray

Giving every opportunity for the storm clouds to blow clear after a four-hour hold, the United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket counts down Thursday afternoon at Cape Canaveral until the clocks had to be halted for the day.

Photos: Proton rocket climbs into space from Kazakhstan

June 9, 2016 Stephen Clark

A Russian Proton rocket lifted off Thursday with a U.S.-built communications satellite to broadcast television over Latin America, firing into orbit from the historic Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

Delta 4-Heavy factoids

June 9, 2016 Justin Ray

Learn more about the United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket as it prepares to perform the classified NROL-37 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office,

Photos: Gantry retracted from Delta 4-Heavy

June 9, 2016 Justin Ray

The 330-foot tall mobile service tower is rolled away from the United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket at Cape Canaveral’s pad 37B on launch day.

LISA Pathfinder success bolsters plan for gravitational wave observatory

June 8, 2016 Stephen Clark

Europe’s LISA Pathfinder mission — a fundamental physics lab launched last year to a point a million miles from Earth — has demonstrated the mind-boggling technology required for a future space-based observatory to listen for faint, low-frequency vibrations emitted by invisible objects in the most distant pockets of the universe, scientists said this week.

Photos: Delta 4-Heavy on the pad Wednesday

June 8, 2016 Justin Ray

On the eve of its scheduled flight for U.S. national security interests, the United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket stands quietly inside the protective gantry at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 37 pad.

Live coverage: Delta 4-Heavy countdown and launch journal

June 8, 2016 Justin Ray

A United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral at 1:51 p.m. EDT (1751 GMT) today to haul a classified satellite into space for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office. Follow the mission in our live journal.

Live coverage: Proton rocket blasts off on lengthy 15-hour mission

June 7, 2016 Stephen Clark

An International Launch Services Proton rocket lifted off with a communications satellite for Intelsat and DirecTV at 0710 GMT (3:10 a.m. EDT) Thursday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan after a one-day delay to resolve an issue with an electrical connector on the booster.

Launch of next space station crew moved to July

June 7, 2016 Stephen Clark

Russian managers have delayed the launch of a Russian-U.S.-Japanese crew to the International Space Station two weeks until early July to allow time for additional software testing on an upgraded version of the Soyuz spacecraft.