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VideoHalfway through all-sky survey, NASA’s planet-hunting TESS mission gets extension
NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, fresh off a two-year extension to keep operating through 2022, has turned its cameras to image the northern sky after cataloguing nearly 1,000 candidate planets around other stars in the first year of its mission.
VideoMars 2020 rover on track for launch next July
The launch of NASA's Mars 2020 rover is less than a year away, and the steady pace of work inside the craft's pristine assembly hall in California is keeping the mission on schedule for liftoff from Cape Canaveral next July, despite growing costs, according to mission managers.
VideoInvestigators conclude external forces killed an Intelsat satellite in April
Investigators probing the sudden failure of the Boeing-built Intelsat 29e geostationary relay station in April have concluded an electrostatic discharge, aggravated by a harness flaw on the spacecraft, or a micrometeoroid strike prematurely ended the satellite's mission, resulting in a $382 million hit to Intelsat's quarterly financial report.
VideoSoyuz booster rolls out to launch pad with space station refueling freighter
Packed with nearly 3 tons of rocket fuel, water, oxygen and crew provisions, the Russian Progress MS-12 supply ship and its Soyuz booster arrived at a launch pad Sunday at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, moving a step closer to liftoff Wednesday on a fast-track three-hour flight to the International Space Station.
VideoWatch a live view of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket awaiting liftoff (members only)
Spaceflight Now members can watch a live view of pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, where a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is set for liftoff on a resupply mission to the International Space Station.
VideoLive coverage: SpaceX cargo ship arrives at space station
Nearly two days after launching from Cape Canaveral, SpaceX's Dragon cargo craft arrived at the International Space Station on Saturday with more than 5,000 pounds of supplies, food, experiments and a new docking mechanism. Astronauts aboard the station captured Dragon using the Canadian-built robotic arm at 9:11 a.m. EDT (1311 GMT).
VideoLive coverage: India’s Chandrayaan 2 moon mission blasts off
A week after a technical problem on the GSLV Mk.3 rocket thwarted a previous launch attempt, India's Chandrayaan 2 lunar orbiter, lander and rover climbed into space at 0913 GMT (5:13 a.m. EDT) Monday.
VideoScientists reconstruct what Neil Armstrong saw as he landed on the moon
Using 21st century images taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, scientists have reconstructed the view Neil Armstrong had outside the window of the Apollo 11 lunar module as he guided the spacecraft to a safe landing site on the moon 50 years ago.
VideoLive coverage: U.S.-Russian-Italian crew arrives at space station
A veteran Russian commander, Italian flight engineer and a rookie NASA astronaut lifted off at 1628 GMT (12:28 p.m. EDT) Saturday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, kicking off a six-hour flight to the International Space Station. The crew docked with the station at 2248 GMT (6:48 p.m. EDT).
VideoChinese space station testbed ends mission with controlled re-entry
A prototype space lab module for China's planned space station re-entered the atmosphere over the South Pacific Ocean Friday to end a nearly three-year mission that included a visit from Chinese astronauts and an in-orbit refueling demonstration.