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VideoLive coverage: SpaceX delivers joint SES/EchoStar satellite to orbit
Crowned with a European-built communications satellite designed to broadcast television over the Americas, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with a previously-flown first stage booster lifted off Kennedy Space Center's launch pad 39A Wednesday at 6:53 p.m. EDT (2253 GMT).
VideoRussian Progress supply ship poised for swift trip to space station
Russian ground crews are readying a robotic Progress cargo freighter for launch Thursday on an expedited trek to the International Space Station that should take less than three-and-a-half hours from liftoff to docking, cutting in half the normal transit time.
VideoWatch live: Astronauts head outside space station for maintenance
Astronauts Randy Bresnik and Mark Vande Hei exited the International Space Station airlock Tuesday for the second of three spacewalks planned this month.
VideoLive coverage: Japanese navigation satellite launches on H-2A rocket
A Japanese H-2A rocket launched the fourth satellite for the country's regional navigation network Monday. Liftoff from the Tanegashima Space Center in southwestern Japan occurred at 2201:37 GMT (6:01:37 p.m. EDT).
VideoLive coverage: Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from California, lands in Pacific
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket at 5:37 a.m. PDT (8:37 a.m. EDT; 1237 GMT) Monday from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California with the third set of 10 new-generation satellites for Iridium's voice and data relay network. The Falcon 9's first stage booster successfully landed on a platform in the Pacific Ocean a few minutes after liftoff.
VideoLive coverage: Proton lifts off with U.S.-built satellite for Asian company
A Russian Proton rocket lifted off Thursday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan with the AsiaSat 9 satellite destined to provide television broadcast, video networking and data delivery services over the Asia-Pacific region. Launch occurred at 1852:16 GMT (2:52:16 p.m. EDT), beginning a series of maneuvers expected to last nine hours before AsiaSat 9 is deployed from the rocket.
VideoScientists celebrate 10th anniversary of Dawn mission’s launch
In the ten years since its launch from Cape Canaveral, NASA's Dawn spacecraft has orbited the two largest worlds in the asteroid belt and overcome defective components that threatened to derail the mission on its 4 billion-mile voyage, discovering unexpectedly rich geologic tapestries suggesting both destinations have a watery past.
VideoAsiaSat communications payload ready for Proton launch
A Russian Proton rocket topped with a commercial U.S.-built communications satellite for AsiaSat is standing on a launch pad in Kazakhstan for liftoff Thursday.
VideoReplenishment satellite launched into Russia’s Glonass navigation fleet
A Soyuz rocket added a new satellite to Russia's Glonass navigation network Friday with an on-target delivery nearly 12,000 miles above Earth.
VideoLive coverage: SpaceX cargo capsule returns to Earth
SpaceX's Dragon supply ship returned to to Earth on Sunday with more than 3,800 pounds of NASA cargo, research specimens and other hardware. The commercial capsule was released from the International Space Station's robotic arm at 4:40 a.m. EDT (0840 GMT), and splashdown in the Pacific Ocean west of Baja California occurred at approximately 10:15 a.m. EDT (1415 GMT).