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September 20, 2024

Breaking News

[ September 20, 2024 ] SpaceX launches 20 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base Falcon 9
[ September 18, 2024 ] Rocket Lab set to launch 5 Internet of Things satellites following mid-week scrub Electron
[ September 17, 2024 ] SpaceX launches European Commission’s Galileo satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Falcon 9
[ September 15, 2024 ] Polaris Dawn crew returns to Earth with splashdown in Gulf of Mexico Mission Reports
[ September 12, 2024 ] SpaceX launches 21 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from West Coast Falcon 9

NASA requests proposals to reduce cost, timeline of Mars Sample Return mission

April 16, 2024 Will Robinson-Smith

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson described the projection of an $11 billion mission price tag that wouldn’t see the samples returned until 2040 as “unacceptable.”

SpaceX reaches 19 flights with a Falcon 9 booster for a third time with Starlink mission

March 23, 2024 Spaceflight Now

SpaceX managed to thread the needle with the weather and launch the first of two planned Starlink missions from Cape Canaveral in 48 hours. A Falcon 9 rocket launched from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center on Saturday at 11:09 p.m. EDT (0309 UTC on Sunday). It will be followed by another Falcon 9 from nearby pad 40 on Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Monday.

Atlas 5 rocket launches Amazon’s first Kuiper satellites from Cape Canaveral

October 6, 2023 Spaceflight Now

A ULA Atlas 5 rocket is set to launch no earlier than 2 p.m. EDT (1800 UTC) on Friday, Oct. 6. It will sent up two prototype satellites for Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellite internet constellation.

Live Coverage: Crew 6 to return to Earth in SpaceX Dragon Endeavour

September 3, 2023 Spaceflight Now

The members of Crew 6 are preparing to return to Earth after almost 185 days in space. NASA and SpaceX are currently targeting a splashdown off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida at 12:17 a.m. EDT (0417 UTC) on Monday, Sept. 4, weather permitting.

Russian cosmonauts make spacewalk at International Space Station

August 9, 2023 William Harwood

A cosmonaut took a test ride on the end of a European robot arm during a six-hour 35-minute spacewalk outside the International Space Station Wednesday amid work to install three micrometeoroid debris shields and relocate a work platform.

Live coverage: Stormy weather scrubs Falcon Heavy launch

April 27, 2023 Stephen Clark

Stormy weather at the Kennedy Space Center forced SpaceX to scrub the liftoff of a Falcon Heavy rocket Thursday night carrying the ViaSat 3 Americas broadband satellite to a near-geostationary orbit.

Launch Pad Live: Feeds from Starbase and Kennedy Space Center

April 18, 2023 Spaceflight Now

Watch a live 24-7 stream of space operations from Starbase, Texas, and Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Watch a live view of SpaceX’s pad 39A (members only)

July 20, 2022 Spaceflight Now

Watch a live view of launch pad 39A as construction ramps up on the company’s Florida launch pad for SpaceX’s Starship project. (Live video during daylight hours)

Watch live as space station astronauts make spacewalk

June 25, 2021 William Harwood

European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet and NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough will head outside the International Space Station for a planned six-and-a-half hour spacewalk beginning around 8 a.m. EDT (1200 GMT). The spacewalkers will install and unfurl a second roll-out solar array outside the space station.

Watch a live view of the Falcon 9 on pad 40 (members only)

March 24, 2021 Stephen Clark

Spaceflight Now members can watch a live view of the Falcon 9 rocket on pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station as it awaits launch with 60 more Starlink satellites.