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December 6, 2025

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[ December 5, 2025 ] International Space Station prepares for new commander, heads into final five years of planned operations Mission Reports
[ December 4, 2025 ] SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandengerg SFB Falcon 9
[ December 4, 2025 ] Orion hatch ‘blemish’ delays launch day rehearsal for Artemis 2 astronauts Mission Reports
[ December 3, 2025 ] Jared Isaacman makes second appeal for NASA administrator position News
[ December 2, 2025 ] Sunset SpaceX launch adds 29 more Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit Falcon 9

Photos: Cygnus packed up and fueled for trip to the space station

March 8, 2016 Justin Ray

The International Space Station cargo ship launching from Cape Canaveral on March 22 has been given a name — the SS Rick Husband.

Delta 4-Heavy goes to launch pad for national security flight

March 8, 2016 Justin Ray

Rolling toward a mid-May deployment of a clandestine spy satellite, United Launch Alliance’s triple-body Delta 4-Heavy rocket moved from its Cape Canaveral assembly building to pad 37B yesterday.

Live coverage: Ariane 5 successful in middle-of-the-night launch

March 8, 2016 Stephen Clark

Soaring into orbit in a rare middle-of-the-night launch from French Guiana, an Ariane 5 rocket took off at 0520 GMT (12:20 a.m. EST) Wednesday with a Eutelsat communications satellite to boost television capacity ahead of the Rio Olympics.

Photos: Ariane 5 in position for blastoff from Kourou

March 8, 2016 Stephen Clark

An Ariane 5 rocket is poised for a rare overnight launch early Wednesday, and these photos show the 180-foot-tall launcher on the eve of liftoff with a multi-mission Eutelsat communications satellite.

Assembly complete for ExoMars’ Proton launcher

March 8, 2016 Stephen Clark

Europe’s ExoMars orbiter, due to begin a seven-month journey to the red planet March 14, has met its Russian Proton rocket booster as launch preparations enter the final stages at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

Ariane 5 moved to launch zone with powerhouse Eutelsat satellite

March 7, 2016 Stephen Clark

An Ariane 5 rocket topped by a heavyweight communications satellite for Eutelsat emerged from its hangar in French Guiana on Monday for a railroad ride to a nearby launch pad for final flight preps.

Engineers lose control of U.S. military weather satellite

March 7, 2016 Stephen Clark

The U.S. Air Force has been unable to send commands to the service’s newest weather satellite for nearly a month, and engineers are trying to determine if the spacecraft can be salvaged, officials said last week.

Photos: Sunset sendoff for SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket

March 7, 2016 Stephen Clark

A final set of photos shows Friday’s Falcon 9 launch from Cape Canaveral with the SES 9 communications satellite.

ULA’s candidates to replace RD-180 engine win Air Force funding

March 7, 2016 Stephen Clark

The Pentagon has awarded at least $162 million in contracts to Aerojet Rocketdyne and United Launch Alliance for development of the AR1 and BE-4 rocket engines, candidates to power the first stage of a next-generation rocket and replace the Russian-made engine currently flying on the Atlas 5 launcher.

Fate of NASA’s InSight Mars mission to be decided soon

March 5, 2016 Stephen Clark

NASA is close to deciding whether to spend an extra $150 million to send the InSight lander to Mars in 2018 or cancel the mission after an instrument problem made the spacecraft miss a launch opportunity this year, with a verdict on the project’s future expected within weeks, officials said.