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Globalstar hush-hush ahead of launch with SpaceX
Globalstar is set to add a spare spacecraft to its commercial data relay network early Sunday with a launch from Cape Canaveral on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, but the satellite operator remained silent about the mission on the eve of liftoff.
SpaceX launches German military radar satellite from California
A four-ton radar observation satellite for the German military soared into orbit Saturday from California on top of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, beginning a 10-year mission to collect all-weather reconnaissance imagery.
VideoLive coverage: SpaceX launches German satellite, lands Falcon rocket in California
A German military reconnaissance satellite rode a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket into orbit Saturday from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Liftoff is occurred at 7:19 a.m. PDT (10:19 a.m. EDT; 1419 GMT), and the Falcon 9's first stage booster returned to Vandenberg for landing about eight minutes later.
German military radar satellite ready for SpaceX rocket ride
The first satellite in a nearly billion-dollar program to provide the German military with improved radar surveillance imagery from space is set to rocket into a polar orbit Saturday from California's Central Coast on a SpaceX Falcon 9 launcher.
SpaceX deploys more Starlink satellites as astronomers renew brightness concerns
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 booster for a record-breaking 13th time Friday from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, hauling 53 more Starlink internet satellites into orbit as astronomers renew concerns about the growing brightness of the latest generation of the broadband relay spacecraft.
VideoLive coverage: SpaceX launches 53 more Starlink internet satellites
SpaceX launched a reusable Falcon 9 booster for a record-breaking 13th time Friday from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, hauling 53 more Starlink internet satellites into orbit. Liftoff from pad 39A occurred at 12:09 p.m. EDT (1609 GMT).
First tower segment for SpaceX’s Starship launch site moves to pad 39A
The first segment of a new launch tower for SpaceX's behemoth Starship rocket moved across the Kennedy Space Center late Wednesday to pad 39A, where the company is poised to erect one of the tallest structures at the Cape Canaveral spaceport.
VideoSpaceX planning another trifecta of launches this weekend
SpaceX teams in Florida and California are preparing for three missions from three launch pads in three days, beginning Friday with a launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida with a reusable Falcon 9 booster flying for a record 13th time.
NASA agrees to provide launcher for UK-built lunar communications satellite
NASA and the European Space Agency have agreed that a pathfinder data relay satellite to support missions on the polar regions and the far side of the moon will be launched on a commercial U.S. rocket, deepening trans-Atlantic ties on the Artemis lunar program, officials said Wednesday.
Ninth asteroid added to Lucy mission; optimism grows on solar array issue
Engineers have made progress in attempts to fully unfurl a solar array wing that snagged on NASA’s Lucy asteroid explorer shortly after launch last October, adding to optimism that the spacecraft can complete its 12-year mission as planned.