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Station crew completes maintenance spacewalk

October 7, 2014 William Harwood

Working outside the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman and European Space Agency crewmate Alexander Gerst successfully moved a failed ammonia pump module to an external stowage platform, completing a task originally planned for a repair spacewalk last December.

H-2A

H-2A rocket boosts Japanese weather satellite into orbit

October 7, 2014 Stephen Clark

Japan has launched a next-generation geostationary weather satellite on the 25th flight of the country’s H-2A rocket, deploying an upgraded meteorological observatory critical to the minute-by-minute tracking of tropical cyclones and other storm systems across the Asia-Pacific.

H-2A

Upgraded Japanese weather satellite set for launch

October 6, 2014 Stephen Clark

A space-based weather monitor, equipped with upgraded instruments for more detailed and timely data on tropical cyclones and thunderstorms, is scheduled for launch Tuesday on top of Japan’s 25th H-2A rocket.

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Candidate landing sites selected for ESA Mars rover

October 5, 2014 Stephen Clark

The European Space Agency has announced four candidate landing sites for the ExoMars rover, as a deadline looms to secure full funding for the mission in time for a scheduled launch to the red planet in 2018.

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UrtheCast says it will be largest commercial ISS user

October 4, 2014 Stephen Clark

Officials with Canadian Earth observation company UrtheCast, which owns two cameras on the International Space Station’s Russian service module, outlined plans to install a remote sensing camera and a radar imaging payload on the outpost’s U.S.-owned Tranquility module in 2017.

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Orbital weeks away from Antares first stage decision

October 3, 2014 Stephen Clark

Orbital Sciences Corp. plans to select a long-term propulsion supplier for the Antares rocket used to launch cargo to the International Space Station in the next few weeks, in time to include a potentially redesigned launcher in a bid for a follow-on NASA resupply contract.

Delta 4

Photo gallery: Delta 4-Heavy moved to launch pad

October 2, 2014 Justin Ray

The United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket for Exploration Flight Test-1 is rolled to the launch pad and lifted to the vertical position.

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Orion’s Delta 4-Heavy rocket moved to launch pad

October 1, 2014 Spaceflight Now

The booster rocket that will launch NASA’s next-generation Orion space capsule on a two-orbit, four-hour shakedown cruise in December has been rolled to the launch pad at Cape Canaveral.

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Boeing, SpaceX told to stop work under crew contracts

October 1, 2014 Stephen Clark

NASA has directed Boeing and SpaceX to halt activities under contracts awarded last month to build commercial space taxis to ferry astronauts to the Space Station while the U.S. Government Accountability Office reviews a protest of NASA’s decision filed by Sierra Nevada.

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Aerojet Rocketdyne touts AR1 engine for Atlas 5

October 1, 2014 William Harwood

Aerojet Rocketdyne is pressing ahead with development of a powerful new rocket engine that company officials believe will be an attractive alternative to the Russian-built RD-180 engine that now powers the first stage of United Launch Alliance’s workhorse Atlas 5 booster.

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  • Amazon says $139.5 million investment in Florida is key to ramping up launch cadence with Project Kuiper
    July 24, 2025
  • NASA probes to study how the solar wind triggers potentially dangerous ‘space weather’
    July 23, 2025
  • FAA: ‘Regional power outage’ causes last-minute scrub of NASA’s TRACERS mission
    July 22, 2025
  • SpaceX launches 15th mission for SES following one-day scrub
    July 21, 2025
  • SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites into polar orbit on Falcon 9 rocket from California
    July 18, 2025
  • SpaceX launches first of three missions for Amazon’s Project Kuiper constellation
    July 15, 2025
  • SpaceX launches 26 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SFB
    July 15, 2025
  • NASA, SpaceX target July 31 for Crew-11 launch to the ISS
    July 14, 2025
  • SpaceX launches Israeli satellite on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral
    July 12, 2025
  • Axiom Space, Oakley partner on spacesuit visor for Artemis missions
    July 12, 2025
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