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VideoLive coverage: Falcon Heavy launches from Kennedy Space Center
SpaceX's Falcon Heavy, the world's most powerful operational launch vehicle, lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 9:41 a.m. EDT (1341 GMT) Tuesday on a mission to deliver two U.S. Space Force satellites and multiple rideshare payloads into geosynchronous orbit, a journey that will take about six hours for the rocket's upper stage. The Falcon Heavy's two side boosters successfully returned to Cape Canaveral for landing about eight minutes after liftoff.
VideoLive coverage: More Starlink satellites launched from California
SpaceX sent another batch of 53 Starlink internet satellites into orbit Thursday from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 6:14 p.m. PDT (9:14 p.m. EDT; 0114 GMT).
VideoLive coverage: SpaceX test-fires Falcon Heavy rocket at Kennedy Space Center
SpaceX rolled its fourth Falcon Heavy rocket to the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center Tuesday night and raised it vertical early Thursday in preparation for a test-firing of its 27 main engines. The static fire test occurred at 8 p.m. EDT Thursday (0000 GMT Friday) in a precursor to the scheduled launch of the Falcon Heavy on a U.S. Space Force satellite delivery mission Nov. 1.
VideoLive coverage: Indian rocket launches 36 OneWeb satellites
India's most powerful rocket, the GSLV Mk.3, launched 36 OneWeb internet satellites at 2:37 p.m. EDT (1837 GMT) Saturday. The mission resumed launches for OneWeb after the suspension of flights on Russian Soyuz rockets earlier this year.
VideoAnother batch of Starlink satellites launch from Cape Canaveral
Fifty-four Starlink internet satellites fastened to a Falcon 9 rocket blasted off Thursday from Cape Canaveral, continuing SpaceX's deployments for a broadband network reaching into an ever-expanding market linking rural households, ships, commercial airplanes, and Ukrainian military forces in their fight against Russia.
VideoRussia launches three satellite deployment missions in one week
All three of Russia's major rockets -- the Soyuz, Proton, and Angara -- launched last week on missions to deploy a Russian navigation satellite, an Angolan communications spacecraft, and a top secret military spy payload.
VideoLive coverage: SpaceX launches Eutelsat TV broadcasting satellite
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off 1:22 a.m. EDT (0522 GMT) Saturday with Eutelsat's Hotbird 13F television broadcasting satellite. The marked the 100th launch by SpaceX from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
VideoLive coverage: Crew-4 astronauts depart space station, return to Earth
Three NASA astronauts and the outgoing European commander of the International Space Station departed the orbiting complex and headed for Earth on Friday aboard SpaceX's Dragon Freedom spacecraft. Undocking from the space station occurred at 12:05 p.m. EDT (1605 GMT). A parachute-assisted splashdown off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida, followed nearly five hours later 4:55 p.m. EDT (2055 GMT).
VideoLive coverage: SpaceX launches two Intelsat communications satellites
A pair of TV broadcasting satellites for Intelsat launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Saturday at 7:05 p.m. EDT (2305 GMT). SpaceX aborted a countdown Thursday due to a small helium leak, then called off another launch attempt Friday evening for allow time for additional vehicle checkouts.
VideoLive coverage: Rocket Lab launches environmental data relay satellite
Rocket Lab launched a small satellite from New Zealand Friday for General Atomics, NOAA, and the French space agency, beginning a mission to relay global environmental and wildlife tracking data to research centers. Liftoff occurred at 1:09 p.m. EDT (1709 GMT).