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VideoLive coverage: SpaceX launches cargo mission to International Space Station
SpaceX launched a commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station at 5:07 a.m. EST (1007 GMT) Tuesday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
VideoLive coverage: Soyuz brings home three-man crew
Two Japanese space tourists and a Russian cosmonaut have closed out a 12-day visit to the International Space Station. Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa, his assistant Yozo Hirano, and cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin undocked from the station in their Soyuz MS-20 spacecraft at 6:50 p.m. EST (2350 GMT) Sunday, and touched down in Kazakhstan at 10:13 p.m. EST (0313 GMT).
VideoLive coverage: SpaceX launches Turkish comsat from Cape Canaveral
SpaceX launched its second Falcon 9 rocket of the day Saturday night. Turkey's Turksat 5B geostationary communications satellite rode a Falcon 9 into orbit on a trajectory due east from Cape Canaveral. Liftoff occurred at 10:58 p.m. EST Saturday (0358 GMT Sunday).
VideoLive coverage: SpaceX launches first of three missions planned in three days
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 4:41 a.m. PST (7:41 a.m. EST; 1241 GMT) with 52 more Starlink internet satellites. The rocket's reusable first stage booster made its 11th flight to space, then landed on an offshore drone ship.
VideoRussian rocket deploys Express comsats into high-altitude orbit
A Russian rocket stage deployed two television and internet relay satellites into a high-altitude orbit 18 hours after liftoff Monday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan aboard a Proton rocket.
VideoLive coverage: SpaceX launches NASA X-ray astronomy satellite
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket at 1 a.m. EST (0600 GMT) Thursday from launch pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Falcon 9 deployed into orbit NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer spacecraft, an X-ray astronomy mission to study black holes and neutron stars.
VideoLive coverage: Rocket Lab launches final mission of the year
Two small BlackSky commercial remote sensing satellites launched aboard a Rocket Lab Electron booster at 7:02 p.m. EST Wednesday (0002 GMT Thursday) from New Zealand. Rocket Lab did not plan to recover the first stage of the Electron launch vehicle on this mission.
VideoLive coverage: Japanese space tourists launch aboard Russian rocket
Japanese space tourist Yusaku Maezawa, his assistant Yozo Hirano, and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 2:38 a.m. EST (0738 GMT) Wednesday on a Soyuz rocket to begin a 12-day mission to the International Space Station. The Soyuz docked at the space station at 8:40 a.m. EST (1340 GMT).
VideoJapanese billionaire ready for launch to International Space Station
A Russian Soyuz rocket is set for blastoff Wednesday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan carrying Yusaku Maezawa, a Japanese billionaire businessman, his production assistant, and a veteran Russian cosmonaut commander on a 12-day trip to the International Space Station.
VideoLive coverage: Atlas 5 rocket launches Space Force test mission
United Launch Alliance launched an Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Tuesday at 5:19 a.m. EST (1019 GMT). The mission is will deploy two U.S. Space Force technology demonstration satellites into geosynchronous orbit around seven hours after liftoff.