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Endeavour reunited with Spacehab payload in museum
Two years after it paraded through the streets of Los Angeles following a cross-country ferry flight from Florida, the space shuttle Endeavour was loaded with a Spacehab logistics module ahead of the orbiter's planned transition to a vertical display on a mock launch pad in 2018.
NASA clears commercial crew contractors to resume work
Boeing Co. and SpaceX, selected by NASA last month to carry astronauts to the International Space Station, can resume development of their human-rated spacecraft after officials ordered a work stoppage prompted by a protest by Sierra Nevada Corp., the company left out of the contracts.
Galileo launch failure blamed on frozen Fregat fuel line
A design flaw in a Russian Fregat upper stage was responsible for the botched orbital injection of two European Galileo navigation satellites in August, causing hydrazine fuel to freeze inside the rocket's maneuvering system and rendering it unable to point in the right direction during a critical engine burn.
X-37B space planes to move into shuttle hangars
Boeing engineers are outfitting two decommissioned space shuttle hangars at the Kennedy Space Center for the U.S. Air Force's secretive X-37B space plane.
H-2A rocket launch in photos
A Japanese weather satellite launched Tuesday aboard an H-2A rocket, beginning a mission to monitor tropical cyclones and storm systems over East Asia and the Western Pacific.
H-2A rocket boosts Japanese weather satellite into orbit
Japan has launched a next-generation geostationary weather satellite on the 25th flight of the country's H-2A rocket, deploying an upgraded meteorological observatory critical to the minute-by-minute tracking of tropical cyclones and other storm systems across the Asia-Pacific.
Upgraded Japanese weather satellite set for launch
A space-based weather monitor, equipped with upgraded instruments for more detailed and timely data on tropical cyclones and thunderstorms, is scheduled for launch Tuesday on top of Japan's 25th H-2A rocket.
H-2A rolls out to launch pad
Photos of the H-2A rocket's rollout to the launch pad at the Tanegashima Space Center with the Himawari 8 weather satellite.
H-2A rocket diagram
The H-2A rocket, manufactured by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, features twin solid rocket boosters and two stages burning a mix of liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen propellants.
H-2A rocket ground track
Check out the ground track the H-2A rocket will follow on its launch of the Himawari 8 weather satellite.