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[ June 15, 2025 ] Live coverage: ULA to launch Atlas 5 rocket with 2nd batch of Project Kuiper satellites for Amazon Atlas 5
[ June 13, 2025 ] SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Falcon 9
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[ June 10, 2025 ] SpaceX to debut its fifth and final Crew Dragon spacecraft on Axiom Mission 4 Falcon 9
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SpaceX launches Starlink mission from Florida, delays west coast mission

August 16, 2023 Will Robinson-Smith

SpaceX launched one Starlink mission from Florida but plans for a back-to-back overnight mission from the west coast were dashed after the Falcon 9 flying from Vandenberg Space Force Base California was delayed to Friday.

Live coverage: Ariane 5 rocket launches on record-breaking mission

June 1, 2017 Stephen Clark

An Ariane 5 rocket lifted off Thursday at 2345 GMT (7:45 p.m. EDT), flying from a French Guiana launch pad to geostationary transfer orbit with the ViaSat 2 and Eutelsat 172B communications satellites.

Live coverage: Atlas 5 blasts off with Navy satellite

January 19, 2015 Justin Ray

A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket fitted with five powerful solid-fueled boosters has lifted off from a seaside launch complex at Cape Canaveral with the U.S. Navy’s third Mobile User Objective System communications satellite.

Atlas 5 to sport new upper stage engine Thursday

December 8, 2014 Justin Ray

The most powerful Atlas rocket to ever fly from the West Coast is poised for launch Thursday to deliver a secret payload into orbit while debuting a new upper stage engine.

Delta 4-Heavy blasts off with Orion capsule

December 5, 2014 Justin Ray

NASA’s inaugural Orion spaceship has set sail on a two-orbit, four-hour shakedown cruise around the Earth, leaving port atop a United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket and its incandescent power at 7:05 a.m. EST on Dec. 5.

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.