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VideoPhotos: Soyuz soars skyward from French Guiana
Flying for the 10th time from a tropical launch facility along the South American coastline, a Russian Soyuz rocket lifted off Dec. 18 and streaked through partly sunny skies with four satellites to extend the reach of the O3b Networks, a company founded to bring broadband to the world's most remote and impoverished countries.
Falcon 9 completes full-duration static fire
SpaceX fueled up a Falcon 9 rocket, ran through a mock countdown and fired the booster's nine Merlin main engines Friday in a successful preflight static fire test officials hope will clear the way for liftoff Jan. 6 on a space station resupply mission.
Russian-built spy satellite rockets out of underground silo
A Strela rocket carrying a Russian-built radar surveillance satellite built for an undisclosed foreign customer sprung out of an underground silo in Kazakhstan and fired into orbit Friday.
Third quartet of satellites launched for O3b Networks
A Soyuz rocket lifted off from French Guiana on Thursday, launching four satellites owned by O3b Networks nearly 5,000 miles above Earth to expand access to high-speed Internet in the developing world.
Photos: India test flies new launcher, crew capsule
A powerful new Indian launcher and a precursor to a future piloted space capsule flew to the edge of space on a 20-minute test mission Thursday. See photos of the rocket's liftoff and the landing craft after splashdown in the Bay of Bengal.
Soyuz/O3b F3 launch timeline
Follow the key events of the Soyuz rocket’s ascent into orbit from the Guiana Space Center with four broadband communications satellites for O3b Networks.
Launch of SpaceX supply ship delayed to January
Blaming a technical glitch encountered during a preflight test, officials said Thursday the launch of SpaceX's next Dragon cargo capsule to the International Space Station has been delayed to early January.
Live coverage: Soyuz blasts off on third mission for O3b
Four satellites tucked inside the tip of a Soyuz rocket lifted off Thursday, heading for a 5,000-mile-high orbit to expand the reach of O3b's broadband communications network. Liftoff from the European-run spaceport in French Guiana occurred at 1:37 p.m. EST (1837 GMT).
India’s new rocket program achieves big success
India's aspiration to launch all of its own satellites -- and eventually astronauts -- into space got a boost Thursday with a successful test flight of a powerful new rocket and a prototype landing capsule designed for the country's human spaceflight program.
Europe’s Venus Express mission is at its end
The European Space Agency's Venus Express spacecraft has run out of fuel and will burn up in the atmosphere of Venus in January after a successful eight-year mission.