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VideoLive coverage: Four more O3b broadband launch aboard Soyuz rocket
Four more satellites for SES Networks' O3b broadband fleet launched Thursday aboard a Soyuz rocket. Liftoff of the Soyuz launcher from the Guiana Space Center in South America occurred at 1703 GMT (1:03 p.m. EDT).
VideoIsrael’s Beresheet lander heads for make-or-break lunar capture maneuver
An Israeli spacecraft has one shot Thursday to swing into orbit around the moon with a six-minute engine firing, a critical maneuver that will set up for the privately-funded probe's historic landing attempt April 11.
VideoTwo Soyuz rockets rolled out for launches on different continents
Russian ground crews working in starkly different environments on the barren steppes of Kazakhstan and in the lush jungles of South America are readying a pair of Soyuz rockets for two launches Thursday, one to resupply the International Space Station, and another to broaden the capacity of SES's O3b Internet network.
VideoLive coverage: New configuration of India’s PSLV launches for first time
India debuted a new configuration of its workhorse Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, featuring four strap-on boosters and an upper stage with solar arrays to generate electrical power, with a liftoff at 0357 GMT Monday (11:57 p.m. EDT Sunday). The mission lofted an Indian military satellite and 28 nanosatellites for companies in the United States, Lithuania, Spain and Switzerland.
VideoChina launches tracking and data relay satellite
A Chinese Long March 3B rocket delivered a new-generation tracking and data relay satellite to orbit Sunday to provide communications support for the country's future human spaceflight missions and space station.
VideoIndia’s PSLV poised for launch with 29 satellites
An Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle is scheduled for liftoff Sunday night with an intelligence-gathering electronic surveillance satellite and 28 secondary payloads, including 20 Earth-imaging Dove nanosatellites for Planet, the U.S. company which criticized India's anti-satellite test for generating space debris last week.
VideoU.S. military sensors track debris from Indian anti-satellite test
The U.S. Air Force was tracking at least 270 debris fragments created by an Indian anti-satellite missile test, but the debris field posed no immediate threat to the International Space Station or most other satellites in low Earth orbit, a senior U.S. military official said Wednesday in a congressional hearing.
VideoLive coverage: Rocket Lab launches experimental satellite for DARPA
Rocket Lab's first launch of the year lifted off Thursday at 7:27 p.m. EDT (2327 GMT) after a four-day delay to replace a video transmitter and wait for improved weather. The company's Electron rocket launched from Mahia Peninsula on New Zealand's North Island with a technology demonstration satellite for DARPA, the U.S. military research and development agency.
VideoLive coverage: Vega rocket launches with Italian hyperspectral imaging satellite
The first of up to four Vega rocket launches planned this year lifted off Thursday night from French Guiana carrying the Italian PRISMA hyperspectral Earth-imaging satellite. The solid-fueled launcher blasted off from the Guiana Space Center at 0150:35 GMT (9:50:35 p.m. EDT).
VideoLive coverage: Delta 4 rocket launches from Cape Canaveral
A United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral at 8:26 p.m. EDT Friday (0026 GMT Saturday) with the U.S. Air Force's tenth Wideband Global SATCOM satellite, extending the reach of the military's highest-capacity satellite communications network.