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Falcon 9/SpaceX CRS-7 launch timeline
Follow the key events of the Falcon 9 rocket’s ascent into orbit from Cape Canaveral on SpaceX's seventh operational resupply mission to the International Space Station.
Live coverage: Falcon 9 disintegrates after launch
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket disintegrated shortly after launch from Cape Canaveral on Sunday, dealing a blow to the entrepreneurial space company and NASA's supply chain to the International Space Station.
Falcon 9 rocket passes last major preflight test
Ground crews plan to load the final cargo into SpaceX's Dragon supply ship Saturday after the capsule's Falcon 9 rocket booster briefly fired up on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral for a flight readiness check.
Cosmonaut from Kazakhstan to fly on Soyuz in September
Russia's space agency says a Kazakh cosmonaut will fly to the International Space Station on 10-day mission in September, replacing British singer Sarah Brightman, who backed out of the mission in May.
VideoSpaceX aims for another rocket landing experiment Sunday
Keeping with its mantra of fly, fix and fly again, SpaceX says it has resolved a valve problem that kept one of its Falcon 9 boosters from successfully touching down on a barge in the Atlantic Ocean in April, ahead of another landing attempt after a launch from Cape Canaveral set for Sunday.
Astronaut Scott Kelly looks down on aurora lights
From a perch more than 250 miles up, astronaut Scott Kelly got a bird's-eye view of this week's spectacular auroral display that enraptured skywatchers around the world.
Ariane 6 rockets likely to be assembled horizontally
Construction of a new launch pad for Europe's Ariane 6 rocket, which will be put together horizontally instead of vertically, is due to begin next week at an abandoned quarry site in French Guiana.
Russian military satellite launched from Plesetsk
A new Russian military global surveillance platform is orbiting Earth after launching from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome on Tuesday.
VideoPhotos: Vega launch lights up French Guiana
Monday night's blastoff of a Vega rocket from the northern shore of South America dispatched a 2,500-pound Earth imaging satellite for Europe and put on a light show across the tropical spaceport at the edge of the Amazon.
New satellite joins Europe’s growing Earth observing network
A new satellite to monitor crops, pollution and the growth of cities blasted off Monday from a tropical spaceport in French Guiana, adding another piece to Europe's multibillion-dollar fleet of spacecraft tasked to track Earth's ever-changing environment.