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VideoFalcon 9 beats the weather to launch 22 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral
A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off Friday night on another mission to deliver satellites into orbit for SpaceX's Starlink internet service. Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station occurred at 10:00 p.m. EDT Sept. 29 (0200 UTC on Sept. 30) after a delay for weather.
VideoLive coverage: Space station crew return to Earth after 371-day mission
Two Russian cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut return to Earth after an extended tour of duty aboard the International Space Station. The landing marked the end of a 370-day-21-hour-22-minute-long mission. It was the third longest human space flight in history and the longest by a U.S. astronaut.
VideoInterview: Talking asteroid sample return
Spaceflight Now's Will Robinson-Smith speaks with some of the key figures at Lockheed Martin, who helped bring the OSIRIS-REx mission to life and will continue working with both the spacecraft and the asteroid samples after the return capsule lands in the Utah desert.
VideoAs it happened: Seven-year asteroid adventure ends with sample return
Live coverage as a capsule lands in the U.S. Army test range in the Utah desert carrying samples from the surface of asteroid Bennu. NASA's OSIRIS-REx (short for the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) mission has been on a seven-year journey to Bennu and back. If all goes according to plan the capsule will land under a parachute at about 10:55 a.m. EDT (1455 UTC) on Sunday.
VideoAnother Falcon 9 hits 17-flight milestone with Starlink launch
A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched from Cape Canaveral Saturday night with a first-stage booster making its 17th flight. It was only the second to reach this milestone. Liftoff, with 22 Starlink satellites occurred at 11:38 p.m. EDT (0338 UTC Sunday).
VideoArtemis 2 astronauts go to the launch pad for launch day practice
Ahead of launching the Artemis 2 mission no earlier than November 2024, the four astronauts donned test flight suits to go through a pre-launch simulation. They rode to launch pad 39B in Canoo electric vehicles and climbed the Mobile Launcher tower.
VideoSpaceX launches Falcon 9 on record-breaking 17th flight for booster
SpaceX continued to push the boundaries of booster reusability Tuesday night with the launch of a Falcon 9 using a first stage rocket making its 17th flight. Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral with 22 satellites for the Starlink internet network occurred at 11:38 p.m. EDT (0338 UTC).
VideoRadar-imaging satellite lost as Rocket Lab Electron rocket suffers launch failure
A Rocket Lab Electron rocket, carrying a radar-imaging satellite for Capella Space, failed on Tuesday after a problem occurred two and half minutes into flight. It was the fourth failure in 41 flights for the small satellite launcher.
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Radar-imaging satellite lost as Rocket Lab Electron rocket fails
Rocket Lab's Electron rocket failed to launch a radar-imaging satellite for Capella Space on Tuesday after a problem occurred shortly after separation of the first stage about two and a half minutes into flight.
VideoRussian-US crew launches on Soyuz rocket to International Space Station
Two Russian cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 11:44 a.m. EDT (1544 UTC) to relieve a space station crew that unexpectedly served a year in space. Russian commander Oleg Kononenko, Russian flight engineer Nikolai Chub and NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara took a fast-track trajectory to the station to dock at about 2:56 p.m. EDT (1856 UTC).