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VideoSuccessful Soyuz launch thrusts OneWeb past halfway mark in fleet deployment
Another batch of 36 satellites for OneWeb's internet network rode a Russian Soyuz launcher into orbit Thursday, giving the company more than half of the 648-spacecraft fleet it aims to deploy by the end of next year.
VideoLive coverage: Atlas 5 rocket rolls out to launch pad with NASA’s Lucy mission
United Launch Alliance rolled out its next Atlas 5 rocket Thursday to a launch pad at Cape Canaveral, moving the launcher into position for blastoff Saturday at 5:34 a.m. EDT (0934 GMT) with NASA's Lucy mission, a robotic spacecraft to explore the Trojan asteroids in the outer solar system.
VideoLive coverage: Soyuz launches with 36 more OneWeb satellites
A Russian Soyuz rocket loaded with 36 OneWeb internet satellites launched Thursday from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia's Far East. Liftoff occurred at 5:40 a.m. EDT (0940 GMT), beginning a four-hour mission to deploy the 36 spacecraft into polar orbit.
VideoLive coverage: Shatner, co-passengers ride Blue Origin rocket to space
Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket launched from West Texas at 10:49 a.m. EDT (9:49 a.m. CDT; 1449 GMT), carrying actor William Shatner, Planet co-founder Chris Boshuizen, microbiologist Glen de Vries, and Blue Origin vice president Audrey Powers on a 10-minute suborbital flight to space.
VideoOn the verge of another Soyuz launch, OneWeb looks to flights on Indian rockets
OneWeb announced Monday it is working on an agreement to launch future broadband internet satellites on Indian rockets, the same day the next batch of 36 OneWeb spacecraft moved into position at a Russian spaceport for liftoff Thursday on a Soyuz launcher.
VideoLive coverage: Japanese Epsilon rocket launch scrubbed again
Six days after a ground station malfunction scrubbed the mission's first launch attempt, a Japanese Epsilon rocket was poised for blastoff at 8:51 p.m. EDT Wednesday (0051 GMT Thursday) with nine small technology demonstration satellites. But officials called off the mission again, this time citing unfavorable upper level winds.
VideoWatch a video tour of NASA’s Lucy asteroid explorer
Set for launch Oct. 16 on a flight to explore asteroids in the outer solar system, NASA's Lucy spacecraft has been fueled and encapsulated inside the payload fairing of its Atlas 5 rocket. Watch as Chris McCaa, a manager from spacecraft manufacturer Lockheed Martin, points out some of the features of the probe.
VideoNASA’s Lucy asteroid mission 10 days from launch
Fueled up for a 12-year mission of exploration, NASA’s Lucy science probe is nearly ready for launch Oct. 16 from Florida’s Space Coast to begin a journey through the solar system to visit eight asteroids, a record number for a single mission.
VideoLive coverage: Soyuz docks at space station with Russian film crew
A Russian actress and film director rode into orbit Tuesday alongside a veteran Russian cosmonaut, taking aim on the International Space Station to shoot scenes for a feature-length movie. The three-person crew blasted off on a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 4:55 a.m. EDT (0855 GMT) Tuesday. Docking occurred at 8:22 a.m. EDT (1222 GMT).
VideoBepiColombo gets first glimpse of Mercury
The European-Japanese BepiColombo spacecraft swept past Mercury Friday in the first of six high-speed flybys to gradually set up the probe’s trajectory for a critical maneuver in 2025 to enter orbit around the solar system’s innermost planet.