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April 27, 2025

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[ April 26, 2025 ] Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 23 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Falcon 9
[ April 26, 2025 ] Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 27 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SFB Falcon 9
[ April 26, 2025 ] Firefly Aerospace to launch Lockheed Martin LM400 tech demo satellite on Alpha rocket from Vandenberg Alpha
[ April 25, 2025 ] Axiom Space’s Chief Revenue Officer tapped as new CEO News
[ April 23, 2025 ] SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Falcon 9

Photos: X-37B gallery archive

May 18, 2015 Justin Ray

This is a collection of images taken during the three previous flights of the U.S. Air Force’s X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle mini space shuttle.

Videos: Launch and landing archive of X-37B mini space shuttle

May 17, 2015 Justin Ray

Relive the launches and landings of the Air Force’s X-37B miniature space shuttle on Orbital Test Vehicle missions No.1, No. 2 and No. 3.

Proton crash deals another blow to Russian space sector

May 16, 2015 Stephen Clark

Failure struck Russia’s troubled space program for the second time in three weeks Saturday, when a Proton rocket carrying a high-tech satellite for Mexico’s new $1.6 billion space-based communications network crashed shortly after liftoff.

Live coverage: Proton launch runs into trouble

May 15, 2015 Stephen Clark

Russia’s Proton rocket launched from Kazakhstan at 0547 GMT (1:47 a.m. EDT) Saturday with Mexico’s Centenario communications satellite, but the Russian space agency reported an anomaly occurred some time after liftoff.

SpaceX gets certified to launch NASA science missions

May 15, 2015 Stephen Clark

NASA has formally certified SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket to launch all but the space agency’s most costly robotic science missions, beginning with a a U.S.-French oceanography satellite set for liftoff from California in July.

Proton rocket ready to loft Mexican telecom satellite

May 15, 2015 Stephen Clark

A Boeing-built communications satellite for the Mexican government is set for liftoff Saturday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan aboard a Russian Proton rocket.

ULA, SpaceX face off in landmark Air Force launch competition

May 13, 2015 Stephen Clark

The U.S. Air Force has identified the launch of a next-generation GPS navigation satellite for the first in a series of competitive rocket procurements between United Launch Alliance and SpaceX, service officials announced Wednesday.

DMSP satellite debris expected to remain in orbit for decades

May 13, 2015 Stephen Clark

Satellite shards scattered by the explosion of an aging U.S. military weather spacecraft in February will remain in orbit for many decades, according to researchers who specialize in space debris.

Brightman steps down from station flight

May 13, 2015 William Harwood

Soprano and would-be space tourist Sarah Brightman, who was in training for a flight to the International Space Station this fall aboard a Russian Soyuz ferry craft, will not be chasing her dream aloft after all.

Japanese scientists abandon plan for asteroid flyby

May 12, 2015 Stephen Clark

An experimental suitcase-sized space probe launched as a secondary payload with Japan’s Hayabusa 2 mission in December will miss an encounter with an asteroid early next year, according to Japanese scientists.