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[ July 23, 2026 ] Live coverage: SpaceX ready for 2nd attempt to launch Starship Flight 13 following post-abort engine work Artemis
[ July 21, 2026 ] SpaceX launches novel geosynchronous robotic servicing satellite on decade-long mission Falcon 9
[ July 16, 2026 ] Post-ignition anomaly causes abort of SpaceX’s Starship Flight 13 Artemis
[ July 4, 2026 ] Semiconductor manufacturing test bed flies alongside Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 launch Falcon 9
[ July 1, 2026 ] SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SFB Falcon 9

ULA plans to introduce new rocket one piece at a time

April 13, 2015 Stephen Clark

United Launch Alliance is expected to reveal its design for a next generation satellite launcher Monday, outlining a 20-year roadmap to develop a new methane-powered first stage booster, an advanced space tug and a reusable rocket engine.

Live coverage: Dragon cargo craft arrives at space station

April 13, 2015 Stephen Clark

Loaded with mice, plant specimens and the International Space Station’s first espresso machine, a SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule arrived at the complex Friday with a fresh delivery of supplies. ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti grappled the spacecraft with the station’s robot arm at 6:55 a.m. EDT (1055 GMT).

Rosetta keeps its distance from awakening comet

April 12, 2015 Stephen Clark

Mission controllers are rethinking a series of close-up comet flybys planned for Europe’s Rosetta spacecraft after a haze of dust around the comet’s central nucleus led to navigation errors during a close encounter in late March.

Falcon 9 rocket fires engines for prelaunch test

April 11, 2015 Stephen Clark

SpaceX engineers ran through a customary prelaunch countdown test Saturday and fired the Falcon 9 rocket’s nine Merlin main engines at Cape Canaveral ahead of liftoff Monday with 2.2 tons of supplies and experiments for the International Space Station.

NASA invites ESA to build Europa piggyback probe

April 10, 2015 Stephen Clark

After walking away from a previously planned joint mission to Jupiter, NASA has asked the European Space Agency if it can furnish a lander or ice-penetrating probe for a rejuvenated U.S.-led robotic spacecraft to visit Jupiter’s moon Europa.

Falcon 9/SpaceX-6 launch timeline

April 10, 2015 Stephen Clark

Follow the key events of the Falcon 9 rocket’s ascent into orbit from Cape Canaveral on SpaceX’s sixth operational resupply mission to the International Space Station.

SpaceX on track for cargo launch Monday

April 10, 2015 Stephen Clark

Weather forecasters will be on the lookout for rain showers and thunderstorms during Monday’s scheduled launch of a SpaceX cargo craft to the International Space Station, but there is a 60 percent chance conditions at Cape Canaveral will permit liftoff.

ULA plans to introduce new rocket one piece at a time

Live coverage: Dragon cargo craft arrives at space station

Rosetta keeps its distance from awakening comet

Falcon 9 rocket fires engines for prelaunch test

NASA invites ESA to build Europa piggyback probe

Falcon 9/SpaceX-6 launch timeline

SpaceX on track for cargo launch Monday

Atlas 5 slips at payload’s request

Rain research satellite ends science mission, heads for re-entry

ULA working to reduce five launch pads to two