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New and improved space weather observatory goes live next month

June 27, 2016 Stephen Clark

NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory, a $340 million mission that spent more than a decade grounded in a Maryland warehouse, will begin warning forecasters of dangerous solar storms next month, giving notice of events that could disrupt air travel, radio communications, electrical grids and satellite operations.

Friday’s Atlas 5 launch as seen from the air, land and rocket

June 27, 2016 Justin Ray

Perspectives of Friday’s United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket flight were snapped from a commercial airliner, a satellite observer in Australia and the booster itself.

Prototype for new Chinese human-rated spacecraft lands in desert

June 26, 2016 Stephen Clark

A sub-scale landing craft for China’s next-generation crew capsule parachuted back to Earth on Sunday, one day after rocketing into orbit aboard the country’s new Long March 7 launcher.

Antares rocket’s return-to-flight slips to August

June 26, 2016 Stephen Clark

The first launch of Orbital ATK’s redesigned Antares rocket since an engine failure doomed a mission in 2014 will likely be delayed more than one month until August to complete analysis of data acquired during a first stage hotfire test, officials said.

Jupiter and its satellites seen by ‘people’s camera’ on Juno probe

June 25, 2016 Stephen Clark

The visible camera on NASA’s Juno spacecraft is capturing a time-lapse movie of Jupiter and its four largest moons as the orbiter dives toward the giant planet for a July 4 rendezvous, and officials have released a first taste of the views armchair scientists and space enthusiasts can anticipate over the coming weeks and months.

China’s new Long March 7 rocket successful on first flight

June 25, 2016 Stephen Clark

The new kerosene-fueled Long March 7 rocket rocket, developed to become a workhorse for a planned Chinese space station and the country’s clandestine military space program, flew into orbit Saturday on its inaugural flight from a launch base on Hainan Island in the South China Sea.

New and improved space weather observatory goes live next month

Friday’s Atlas 5 launch as seen from the air, land and rocket

Prototype for new Chinese human-rated spacecraft lands in desert

Antares rocket’s return-to-flight slips to August

Jupiter and its satellites seen by ‘people’s camera’ on Juno probe

China’s new Long March 7 rocket successful on first flight

Photos: Atlas 5 launches MUOS 5

China’s most powerful rocket set for maiden flight

Photos: Atlas 5 fulfills MUOS launch series with fifth successful launch

Photos: Most powerful Atlas 5 puts 15,000-pound satellite in orbit