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Photos: Atlas 5 lifts off with Solar Orbiter
Take a look back at the Feb. 9 launch of a 189-foot-tall (57.6-meter) Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral carrying the European-built Solar Orbiter spacecraft.
NASA to assess proposals for probes to Venus, moons of Jupiter and Neptune
NASA announced Thursday it will fund four concept studies for potential robotic missions to Venus, Jupiter's moon Io and Neptune's moon Triton ahead of a decision next year to approve up to two of the projects for launch in the mid-to-late 2020s.
Antares launch scrubbed due to faulty ground support equipment
The launch of a Northrop Grumman Antares rocket with an automated commercial space station cargo vessel from Virginia was aborted less than three minutes before takeoff Sunday after engineers detected unusual readings from a ground support sensor. Northrop Grumman and NASA officials said the next launch attempt is scheduled for no earlier than Thursday.
Atlas 5/Solar Orbiter launch timeline
Follow the major events of the Atlas 5 rocket's launch with the Solar Orbiter spacecraft with this mission timeline.
VideoLive coverage: Antares rocket launch scrubbed in Virginia
Northrop Grumman's launch team aborted an Antares rocket launch from Virginia's Eastern Shore minutes before liftoff Sunday evening. The rocket is set to loft a Cygnus cargo freighter toward the International Space Station with nearly four tons of supplies and experiments.
Antares launch timeline on the NG-13 mission
Northrop Grumman's Antares rocket will deliver a Cygnus supply ship into orbit Saturday to begin a pursuit of the International Space Station.
Antares rocket, Cygnus supply ship readied for space station cargo flight
A commercial Cygnus resupply ship named for Robert H. Lawrence, Jr. -- the first African American selected as an astronaut -- is awaiting liftoff Sunday evening from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia's Eastern Shore to begin a 35-hour trip to the International Space Station.
VideoLive coverage: Atlas 5 launches from Cape Canaveral with Solar Orbiter
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral's Complex 41 launch pad Sunday night with the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter mission, a project developed in partnership with NASA. Launch occurred right on time at the opening of a two-hour window at 11:03 p.m. EST Sunday (0403 GMT Monday).
VideoLive coverage: Space station crew safely returns to Earth
The Russian Soyuz MS-13 spacecraft departed the International Space Station and landed in Kazakhstan Thursday, bringing home outgoing space station commander Luca Parmitano, Soyuz pilot Alexander Skvortsov, and NASA astronaut Christina Koch, who concluded a 328-day mission, the longest-ever spaceflight by a woman. The Soyuz undocked from the station at 0550 GMT (12:50 a.m. EST) Thursday, then landed on the Kazakh steppe at 0912 GMT (4:12 a.m. EST).
Decades in the making, Solar Orbiter finally meets launcher at Cape Canaveral
The European-built Solar Orbiter spacecraft was installed on top of its United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 launcher Friday at Cape Canaveral, ready for final charging and checkouts before liftoff Feb. 9 to finally begin a more than $1.5 billion science mission first approved by the European Space Agency nearly 20 years ago.