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VideoSpaceX closes out first half of 2023 with another Starlink launch
A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Friday with another batch of Starlink internet satellites, wrapping up SpaceX's action-packed first half of the year with the company's 44th mission of 2023.
VideoLive coverage: SpaceX launches 47 more Starlink satellites from California
Another batch of 47 Starlink internet satellites rode a SpaceX rocket into orbit early Thursday from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, continuing the company's record flight rate with another Falcon 9 launch and landing. Liftoff occurred at 12:19 a.m. PDT (3:19 a.m. EDT; 0719 UTC).
VideoDelta 4-Heavy rocket lifts off with NRO spy satellite
The second-to-last flight of United Launch Alliance's Delta rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral early Thursday and delivered a top secret spy satellite into orbit for the U.S. government, snapping the longest lull in launches in ULA's history.
ULA’s Delta rocket assembly line falls silent
United Launch Alliance has closed its Delta rocket assembly line in Alabama after the 389th and last Delta rocket rolled out of the factory for the journey to its launch base in Florida, clearing real estate in ULA's sprawling manufacturing center for the next-generation Vulcan launch vehicle.
VideoIndonesian communications satellite launched by SpaceX rocket
A Father's Day launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral hauled into orbit a European-built communications satellite, the centerpiece of a nearly $550 million project to provide internet service to rural Indonesia.
Space station astronauts continue power system upgrades with new solar array
NASA astronauts Woody Hoburg and Steve Bowen ventured back outside the International Space Station Thursday for their second spacewalk in six days to install and deploy another roll-out solar array to augment the power system on the orbiting laboratory.
VideoSpaceX nails 200th rocket landing after launch with 72 small satellites
SpaceX launched 72 small payloads into polar orbit from California's Central Coast Monday, delivering satellites to space for customers around the world while accomplishing the 200th landing of a Falcon rocket since the first booster recovery in 2015.
VideoLive coverage: SpaceX’s Transporter 8 rideshare mission lifts off from California
SpaceX launched a cluster of 72 small payloads for customers in at least 18 countries into polar orbit from California Monday on the company's eighth small satellite rideshare mission. The mission, known as Transporter 8, lifted off at 2:35 p.m. PDT (5:35 p.m. EDT; 2135 UTC).
VideoSpaceX launches another 52 Starlink internet satellites
SpaceX's 40th launch of the year sent another batch of 52 Starlink internet satellites into orbit from Cape Canaveral early Monday aboard a Falcon 9 rocket.
Astronauts install new roll-out solar array outside International Space Station
Astronauts Steve Bowen and Woody Hoburg suited up and floated outside the International Space Station Friday for a spacewalk to install and unroll an upgraded solar array wing delivered to the complex earlier this week by a SpaceX Cargo Dragon supply ship.