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September 11, 2024

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[ September 11, 2024 ] NASA astronaut Don Pettit to make fourth trip to the International Space Station Mission Reports
[ September 9, 2024 ] SpaceX surmounts challenging weather, launches Polaris Dawn astronaut mission Falcon 9
[ September 7, 2024 ] Starliner lands safely in New Mexico Mission Reports
[ September 6, 2024 ] As it happened: Boeing’s Starliner returned to Earth, marking the end of the Crew Flight Test mission Mission Reports
[ September 6, 2024 ] SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket on national security mission for the NRO Falcon 9

Live coverage: Soyuz lifts off from French Guiana

March 27, 2015 Stephen Clark

A Soyuz rocket lifted off Friday from a jungle spaceport in South America with two satellites for Europe’s Galileo navigation network. The four-hour launch sequence began with blastoff at 2146 GMT (5:46 p.m. EDT).

One-year space expedition starts with 18-hour workday

March 27, 2015 Stephen Clark

Two veteran spacemen embarking on a marathon yearlong mission in orbit must first sprint through a busy workday Friday — suiting up for liftoff, climbing into their Soyuz spaceship, then flying to the International Space Station.

Vega wins contract to launch Peruvian military satellite

March 27, 2015 Stephen Clark

Arianespace will pair a Peruvian military reconnaissance satellite with a package of four commercial Skybox Earth imaging spacecraft on a Vega rocket launch in 2016.

Two more options added to ULA’s rocket naming poll

March 26, 2015 Stephen Clark

Fans of classical mythology and the fictional Star Trek universe can vote for two new candidates as the name of United Launch Alliance’s next generation rocket, with Vulcan and Zeus joining three other options in an online poll revealed earlier this week.

Soyuz/Galileo launch timeline

March 26, 2015 Stephen Clark

Follow the key events of the Soyuz rocket’s ascent into orbit from the Guiana Space Center with two satellites for Europe’s Galileo navigation system.

Kelly, Kornienko braced for marathon mission

March 26, 2015 William Harwood

Shuttle veteran Scott Kelly first heard about NASA’s plans to send an astronaut to the International Space Station for nearly a full year shortly after he completed his third space flight in 2011, a 159-day stay aboard the orbital lab complex.

South Korean satellite launched by Dnepr rocket

March 26, 2015 Stephen Clark

A stockpiled Soviet-era ballistic missile shot out of an underground silo on a remote Russian military base Wednesday and powered into orbit with a South Korean Earth observation satellite.

H-2A rocket achieves fourth launch in six months

March 26, 2015 Stephen Clark

A new surveillance satellite equipped with a high-resolution optical camera blasted into space aboard a Japanese H-2A rocket Thursday, joining a fleet of spy stations in orbit to track military activity in North Korea and other locations around the world.

Photos: More shots of Delta 4 liftoff

March 26, 2015 Justin Ray

The United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket roars off the pad with the Global Positioning System 2F-9 satellite. Photos by ULA.

Photos: Galileo navigation satellites added to Soyuz rocket

March 25, 2015 Stephen Clark

Twin satellites for Europe’s Galileo navigation system were raised on top of a Russian-made Soyuz rocket late Tuesday and installed for Friday’s launch from French Guiana to expand the growing network of spacecraft nearly 15,000 miles above Earth.