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VideoLive coverage: Ariane 5 lifts off with weather and TV broadcast satellites
Europe's third-to-last Ariane 5 rocket blasted of at 3:30 p.m. EST (2030 GMT) Tuesday from Kourou, French Guiana. The mission deployed into geostationary transfer orbit Europe's first Meteosat Third Generation weather satellite and two television broadcasting satellites for Intelsat.
VideoLive coverage: NASA’s Orion spacecraft splashes down after moon mission
NASA's unpiloted Orion spacecraft re-entered Earth's atmosphere at 32 times the speed of sound Sunday, surviving a fiery-hot descent before deploying parachutes and splashing down in the Pacific Ocean west of Baja California at 12:40 p.m. EST (1740 GMT). The Orion capsule successfully completed NASA's Artemis 1 mission, a precursor to future astronaut missions on the spacecraft.
VideoJapanese moon lander, NASA hitchhiker payload launched by SpaceX
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral early Sunday with a commercial Japanese robotic moon lander and a NASA hitchhiker micro-payload called Lunar Flashlight that will seek out signs of water ice hidden in the permanently dark floors of craters at the moon's poles.
VideoSpaceX delivers for rival OneWeb with sunset launch from Kennedy Space Center
Forty more OneWeb internet satellites rocketed into orbit from Kennedy Space Center at sunset Thursday, the company's first launch with SpaceX after suspending flights on Russian rockets earlier this year. A senior OneWeb official said the company has booked an extra launch with SpaceX, adding to a contract signed earlier this year.
VideoLive coverage: Orion spacecraft completes return powered flyby of the moon
NASA's Orion spacecraft successfully fired its main engine for three-and-a-half minutes at 11:43 a.m. EST (1643 GMT) Monday as it flew 80 miles from the surface of the moon, redirecting the capsule's trajectory for the return trip to Earth to wrap up the Artemis 1 test flight.
VideoLive coverage: Three Chinese astronauts land after six months in orbit
Three Chinese astronauts closed out a six-month expedition on the Tiangong space station with a landing in northwestern China in their Shenzhou 14 capsule shortly after 7 a.m. EST (1200 GMT) Sunday.
VideoLive coverage: China launches Shenzhou 15 mission with three astronauts
A Chinese Long March 2F rocket launched three astronauts into orbit from a remote launch site in the Gobi Desert of northwestern China at 10:08 a.m. EST (1508 GMT) Tuesday. The Shenzhou 15 astronauts are embarking on a half-year expedition on China's Tiangong space station. Docking at the space station is expected about six hours after liftoff.
VideoLive coverage: Falcon 9 lifts off with Dragon cargo capsule
After a launch attempt earlier in the week was scrubbed due to bad weather, SpaceX sent a Dragon cargo capsule toward the International Space Station Saturday with nearly four tons of supplies and experiments. Liftoff on a Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center occurred at 2:20 p.m. EST (1920 GMT).
VideoLive coverage: Orion capsule completes distant retrograde orbit insertion burn
Another major engine burn on NASA's Artemis 1 mission placed the Orion spacecraft into a distant retrograde orbit around the moon, where it will spend six days performing more tests and demonstrations before returning to Earth. The 88-second burn by Orion's main engine occurred at 4:52 p.m. EST (2152 GMT) Friday.
VideoSpaceX resupply launch to space station delayed until Saturday
SpaceX called off a launch attempt Tuesday due to bad weather at Kennedy Space Center, delaying until Saturday the start of a resupply mission to the International Space Station.