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VideoLive coverage: GSLV Mk.2 lifts off with the GSAT 7A communications satellite
India's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mk.2 lifted off at 1040 GMT (5:40 a.m. EST; 4:10 p.m. Indian Standard Time) with the GSAT 7A communications satellite for the Indian Air Force. The rocket placed the spacecraft into a supersynchronous transfer orbit around 19 minutes after liftoff from Sriharikota on India's east coast.
VideoLive coverage: Soyuz lifts off with French spy satellite
The French military's newest sharp-eyed optical surveillance satellite lifted off at 1637 GMT (11:37 a.m. EST) Wednesday from French Guiana aboard a Russian-built Soyuz launcher, marking Arianespace's 11th and final launch of 2018. The Soyuz rocket and Fregat upper stage will place the CSO 1 spacecraft into orbit around 500 miles (800 kilometers) above Earth. Managers delayed the launch from Tuesday due to unfavorable high-altitude winds.
VideoLive view of the Falcon 9 at pad 40 (members only)
Spaceflight Now members can watch a live view of the Falcon 9 rocket at Cape Canaveral's Complex 40 launch pad as SpaceX counts down to launch of the GPS 3 SV01 navigation satellite
VideoLive coverage: SpaceX launches GPS navigation satellite for U.S. Air Force
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket at 8:51 a.m. EST (1351 GMT) Sunday from Cape Canaveral with the first in a new line of upgraded U.S. Air Force GPS navigation satellites. The launch was delayed five days due to technical and weather concerns.
VideoVideo and photo highlights of Virgin Galactic’s historic SpaceShipTwo test flight
Check out video highlights released by Virgin Galactic of Thursday's test flight by the company's SpaceShipTwo rocket plane to an altitude of 271,000 feet, above a boundary recognized by the U.S. government as the edge of space.
VideoLive coverage: Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket launches on NASA mission
Rocket Lab's Electron rocket, a commercially-developed light-class booster, lifted off at 1:33 a.m. EST (0633 GMT) Sunday, carrying 13 CubeSats into orbit under contract to NASA.
VideoChina launches historic mission to land on far side of the moon
A robotic lander and rover lifted off Friday (U.S. time) from China's Xichang space center, kicking off a journey that will culminate in an attempt in early January to touch down on the far side of the moon for the first time.
VideoLive coverage: Delta 4-Heavy launch scrubbed again
United Launch Alliance called off the planned liftoff of a Delta 4-Heavy rocket and a classified National Reconnaissance Office spy satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Wednesday after indications of elevated hydrogen concentrations around one of the launcher's main engines. Three previous launch attempts were scrubbed by technical concerns and bad weather.
VideoLive coverage: SpaceX’s Dragon cargo craft arrives at space station
Three days after launching from Cape Canaveral, SpaceX's Dragon cargo craft has arrived at the International Space Station with around 5,600 pounds of supplies and experiments. The automated, unpiloted supply ship was snared by the station's robotic arm at 7:21 a.m. EST (1221 GMT) Saturday.
VideoSpaceflight’s 64-satellite rideshare mission set to last five hours
When SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket takes off with 64 small satellites -- a payload cache representing 34 customers in 17 nations -- it will be just the first act in a nearly five-hour sequence to deftly deploy each of the spacecraft, which range in size from a Rubik's cube to a refrigerator.