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VideoUp and down with a Falcon 9 booster
SpaceX has released video from an Aug. 30 launch captured by a camera mounted aboard the first stage of a Falcon 9 rocket, showing the booster’s climb into space from Cape Canaveral and a fiery return to the Florida spaceport, where SpaceX will ready the vehicle for another mission.
VideoChina launches another Gaofen Earth observation satellite
A new optical Earth observation satellite launched by China Monday joins the country's remote sensing network for land surveys, urban planning, and agriculture monitoring.
VideoLive coverage: SpaceX launches another 60 Starlink satellites
SpaceX completed another another launch to add to the company's Starlink broadband network Thursday. A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 8:46 a.m. EDT (1246 GMT) Thursday from pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
VideoLive coverage: Vega rocket launches with 53 small satellites
Arianespace launched a solid-fueled Vega rocket from French Guiana at 9:51 p.m. EDT Wednesday (0151 GMT Thursday) after delays of more than five months caused by the coronavirus pandemic and unfavorable upper level winds. The Italian-built launcher will deploy 53 small satellites into orbit.
VideoLive coverage: Rocket Lab launches Capella’s first commercial radar satellite
Rocket Lab's first mission since a failed launch in early July took off at 11:05 p.m. EDT Sunday (0305 GMT Monday) from New Zealand. The small satellite launcher carried into orbit a commercial radar remote sensing spacecraft for Capella Space.
VideoLive coverage: SpaceX launches radar satellite for Argentina
SpaceX launched Argentina's SAOCOM 1B radar observation satellite from Cape Canaveral at 7:18 p.m. EDT (2318 GMT) Sunday. A Falcon 9 rocket headed toward the south on a trajectory hugging the Florida East Coast on the first flight into polar orbit from Cape Canaveral since 1969, and the first stage booster returned to the spaceport for an onshore landing minutes after liftoff.
VideoLive coverage: Launch of Delta 4-Heavy aborted seconds before liftoff
The launch of a United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket from Cape Canaveral was aborted three seconds before a planned liftoff at 3:28 a.m. EDT (0728 GMT). The rocket was set to loft a classified payload for the National Reconnaissance Office, the U.S. government's spy satellite agency.
VideoDelta 4-Heavy likely heading for geosynchronous orbit with surveillance payload
The top secret intelligence-gathering payload for the U.S. government set for launch Tuesday on top of a Delta 4-Heavy rocket is likely the next in a line of sensitive eavesdropping satellites designed to intercept radio signals and other communications traffic from adversaries around the world.
VideoStunning imagery highlights weekend Ariane 5 launch
Views from an airliner, close-up high-speed launch pad cameras, and photographers around the Guiana Space Center in the jungle of South America show the twilight launch of a European Ariane 5 rocket Saturday with three commercial satellites heading for orbits more than 22,000 miles over the equator.
VideoLive coverage: SpaceX launches more Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket
Another set of Starlink Internet satellites launched Tuesday from Cape Canaveral aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Powered by a reusable first stage booster making its sixth flight, the Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 10:31 a.m. EDT (1431 GMT). Three SkySat Earth-imaging satellites for Planet accompanied SpaceX's 58 Starlink relay stations into orbit.