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December 16, 2025

Breaking News

[ December 15, 2025 ] Rocket Lab Electron rocket aborts liftoff at engine ignition Electron
[ December 15, 2025 ] ULA Atlas 5 launch puts Amazon’s 180th broadband satellite in low Earth orbit Atlas 5
[ December 14, 2025 ] Falcon 9 launch of 29 Starlink satellites from the Kennedy Space Center delayed to Wednesday Falcon 9
[ December 14, 2025 ] SpaceX launches 100th Falcon 9 rocket from Florida in 2025 Falcon 9
[ December 13, 2025 ] SpaceX completes 550th booster landing amid Saturday night Falcon 9 flight Falcon 9

Photos: Atlas 5 rocket assembled for NASA satellite launch

February 17, 2015 Justin Ray

The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket that will hurl the four MMS satellites into a highly elliptical Earth orbit on March 12 has completed its basic build up at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 41 Vertical Integration Facility.

Video: Progress launches and docks

February 17, 2015 Justin Ray

The Russian Progress 58P cargo freighter launches and six hours later docks to the International Space Station.

Soyuz rocket boosts Russian cargo craft to space station

February 17, 2015 Stephen Clark

Russia launched a Progress resupply mission Tuesday heading for the International Space Station with more than 6,000 pounds of fuel, supplies and experiments to support the lab’s six-person crew, and the automated cargo craft sailed to a smooth link-up with the complex less than six hours later.

SpaceX leases property for landing pads at Cape Canaveral, Vandenberg

February 17, 2015 Stephen Clark

SpaceX plans to set up landing pads on abandoned launch sites at Cape Canaveral and Vandenberg Air Force Base in a step toward the company’s vision for eventual recovery and reuse of rocket boosters.

Photos from Rosetta’s Valentine’s Day comet close-up

February 16, 2015 Stephen Clark

Europe’s Rosetta spacecraft — six months into its mission at comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko — made its closest flyby of the comet’s boulder-strewn nucleus Saturday, capturing photos and measurements to help scientists unravel how the duck-shaped body is evolving on its path around the sun.

SES bridges the Atlantic in latest satellite purchase

February 16, 2015 Stephen Clark

Boeing Satellite Systems, Airbus Defense and Space and Orbital ATK have won orders from Luxembourg-based satellite operator SES for three new communications spacecraft for launch in 2017.

Progress cargo mission ready for launch to space station

February 16, 2015 Stephen Clark

A Russian Progress supply ship packed with 3.1 tons of cargo and propellant to refuel the International Space Station is set for liftoff Tuesday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

Arianespace edges out SpaceX to launch Korean satellites

February 16, 2015 Stephen Clark

Two South Korean Earth-watching satellites will ride Ariane 5 rockets into orbit in 2018 and 2019 after Arianespace beat SpaceX in a competition to launch the spacecraft.

Video: Time lapse of ATV’s final departure from ISS

February 15, 2015 Stephen Clark

This time lapse video shows Europe’s Automated Transfer Vehicle backing away from the International Space Station for the last time Saturday.

Video: New Horizons animation

February 15, 2015 Justin Ray

This animation depicts NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft leaving Earth, swinging by Jupiter and making its much-anticipated flyby of Pluto.