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VideoLive coverage: SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket with Eutelsat 10B satellite
SpaceX's oldest active Falcon 9 rocket booster, in service since 2018, made its final flight at 9:57 p.m. EST Tuesday (0257 GMT Wednesday) to deliver a Eutelsat broadband communications satellite into orbit on a mission to provide internet services to airplanes and ships across the North Atlantic, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. A launch attempt Monday night was scrubbed a couple of hours before liftoff.
VideoLive coverage: Orion spacecraft slingshots by the moon
NASA's Orion spacecraft fired its main engine at 7:44 a.m. EST (1244 GMT) Monday and flew just 81 miles from the lunar surface in a maneuver designed to set up for the capsule's insertion into a distant retrograde orbit around the moon later this week.
VideoLive coverage: NASA’s Artemis 1 moon mission finally underway
NASA's oft-delayed Artemis 1 lunar test flight finally got off the ground at 1:47 a.m. EST (0647 GMT) Wednesday with the inaugural blastoff of NASA's huge Space Launch System moon rocket from Kennedy Space Center. The unpiloted demonstration mission will pave the way for future human missions to the moon.
VideoSpaceX launches Falcon 9 booster into retirement on Intelsat mission
SpaceX launched one of its reusable Falcon 9 rocket boosters for the last time Saturday on a rare expendable mission for Intelsat, devoting all of the launcher's propellant toward placing a pair of television broadcasting satellites into orbit. Intelsat says it paid SpaceX an additional fee for the expendable mission.
VideoLive coverage: Atlas 5 rocket launches on its final mission from California
The final launch of an Atlas 5 rocket from California took off early Thursday with NOAA's JPSS 2 weather satellite and the LOFTID re-entry tech demo experiment for NASA. The Atlas 5 rocket launched at 1:49 a.m. PST (4:49 a.m. EST; 0949 GMT) Thursday from Vandenberg Space Force Base. United Launch Alliance has 19 more Atlas 5s slated to launch from Florida before the rocket's retirement.
VideoWatch live: Hurricane force wind gusts detected at Artemis 1 launch pad
Hurricane Nicole made landfall on Florida's east coast south of Kennedy Space Center early Thursday, while NASA's Artemis 1 moon rocket rode out the storm on pad 39B. We're streaming live views from Kennedy Space Center.
VideoLive coverage: Northrop Grumman Antares rocket launches from Virginia
Northrop Grumman launched an Antares rocket from Wallops Island, Virginia, at 5:32 a.m. EST (1032 GMT) Monday to begin a resupply mission to the International Space Station. A fire alarm at Northrop Grumman's spacecraft control center prevented launch Sunday.
VideoLive coverage: Rocket Lab misses helicopter recovery attempt after successful liftoff from New Zealand
Rocket Lab launched an Electron rocket from New Zealand at 1:27 p.m. EDT (1727 GMT) with a small Swedish atmospheric research satellite. Continuing with its first stage reuse experiments, Rocket Lab hoped to catch the first stage booster with a helicopter, but teams will instead recover the rocket from the sea.
VideoNASA’s Artemis 1 moon rocket ready for ride back to launch pad
After replacing and recharging batteries in the Vehicle Assembly Building, NASA ground teams plan to roll the more than 30-story-tall Space Launch System rocket back to its launch pad early Friday at Kennedy Space Center for another try Nov. 14 to send the Artemis 1 test flight around the moon.
VideoLive coverage: SpaceX launches TV broadcasting satellite for Eutelsat
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket at 1:22 a.m. EDT (0522 GMT) Thursday from Cape Canaveral with Eutelsat's Hotbird 13G television broadcasting satellite. The Falcon 9's first stage booster landed on a downrange drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.