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VideoFour private citizens ride SpaceX rocket into orbit on historic mission
With the backing of a billionaire businessman, four private citizens blasted off Wednesday night from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a first-of-its-kind fully commercial three-day spaceflight aboard a SpaceX crew capsule, riding to an altitude higher than any person has flown in two decades.
VideoLive coverage: Inspiration4 crew gives update on their mission
Four private citizens strapped into a Crew Dragon spacecraft Wednesday for the ride of their lives. The Inspiration4 mission, the first all-private, non-government human spaceflight ever to travel into orbit, blasted off from Kennedy Space Center on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 8:02 p.m. EDT Wednesday (0002 GMT Thursday). The crew members gave a live update on their mission at 5 p.m. EDT (2100 GMT) Friday.
VideoWith tenth launch, OneWeb nears halfway mark in deploying satellite fleet
A day after SpaceX launched 51 Starlink broadband satellites from California, a Russian Soyuz rocket fired into orbit Tuesday from a spaceport halfway around the world, shepherding 34 more satellites for the commercial internet network being constructed by rival OneWeb.
VideoLive coverage: Soyuz rocket launches with more OneWeb satellites
The 10th launch for OneWeb's internet network occurred at 2:07 p.m. EDT (1807 GMT) Tuesday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Another batch of 34 OneWeb satellites rode a Russian Soyuz rocket and Fregat upper stage into orbit.
VideoRussia launches classified military satellite
A classified Russian military satellite, possibly designed with a new miniature reconnaissance camera, launched Sept. 9 on a single-core version of the Soyuz rocket.
VideoLive coverage: SpaceX launches Starlink satellites from California
SpaceX began launching its next series of Starlink internet satellites Monday, when a Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Liftoff with 51 Starlink satellites occurred at 8:55 p.m. PDT (11:55 p.m. EDT) Monday, or 0355 GMT Tuesday.
VideoCivilian astronauts practice for launch day at Kennedy Space Center
The four civilian fliers who will rocket into orbit this week on the privately-managed Inspiration4 mission took their seats inside a SpaceX crew capsule Sunday night in Florida during a dress rehearsal for launch day. Hours later, once the crew members cleared the launch pad, SpaceX test-fired the Falcon 9 rocket set to launch the Inspiration4 mission.
VideoLive coverage: SpaceX test-fires rocket for Inspiration4 crew mission
It's launch week at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where SpaceX is gearing up for liftoff of a Falcon 9 rocket with the Inspiration4 mission, the first all-private human spaceflight to low Earth orbit. SpaceX completed a test-firing of the Falcon 9 rocket early Monday.
VideoFirefly says early engine shutdown led to launch failure
Firefly Aerospace says the premature shutdown of one of its Alpha rocket's four main engines, apparently triggered by an electrical issue, caused the launcher to lose control as it reached supersonic speed during a test flight over California last week. The company emphasized lessons learned from the mission will boost chances the next test flight will reach orbit.
VideoFirefly set for inaugural test launch from Vandenberg
The first test flight of Firefly Aerospace's Alpha launch vehicle could take off as soon as Thursday from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.