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NASA unveils three teams to compete for crewed lunar rover demonstration mission
NASA awarded the so-called ‘Lunar Terrain Vehicle Service’ contract and classified it as an “indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, milestone-based LTVS contract with firm-fixed-price task orders.” The agency said it “has a combined maximum potential value of $4.6 billion for all awards.”
VideoSpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites onboard Falcon 9 flight from Cape Canaveral
Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station occurred at 9:30 p.m. EDT (0130 UTC).
VideoEutelsat mission marks first of double Falcon 9 launch day for SpaceX
SpaceX hopes to launch Falcon 9 rockets from its two launch pads in Florida and its one in California on Saturday night. Liftoff of the Eutelsat 36D satellite from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center happened at 5:52 p.m. EDT (2152 UTC), the opening of a nearly four-hour window.
VideoSpaceX pulls off Starlink 7-18 mission on fourth day of launch attempts
SpaceX stood down from launch attempts on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Poor weather forced the latest two scrubs, according to SpaceX.
VideoHigh winds, gaseous nitrogen pump failure force scrub of the final launch of Delta 4 Heavy minutes before liftoff
The 16th and last launch of the Delta 4 Heavy configuration also marks the end of Delta line of launch vehicles. NROL-70 with be the 389th Delta launch since 1960 and 45th Delta 4 rocket.
Boeing, NASA target May 1 for first crewed flight of Starliner to the space station
Assuming a May 1 launch, the Starliner spacecraft would dock with the ISS on May 2. The spacecraft will launch on the 100th flight of United Launch Alliance’s Atlas 5 rocket.
VideoSpaceX reaches its 175th Falcon 9 flight from Cape Canaveral with Monday evening Starlink mission
This Falcon 9 flight marks the 20th orbital launch from Florida in 2024. Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station happened at 7:42p.m. EDT (2342 UTC).
VideoRoscosmos scrubs Soyuz crew launch 20 seconds before liftoff
The MS-25 mission was scrubbed on Thursday, but the root cause is still under investigation. The earliest that liftoff from the Baikonur Cosmodrome can now occur is Saturday, March 23, pending the outcome of the investigation.
VideoDragon soars from Cape Canaveral’s pad 40 on SpaceX’s 30th cargo mission to the Space Station
The Commercial Resupply Services-30 (CRS-30) mission featured the first launch of a Dragon spacecraft to the ISS from pad 40 since the final first-generation SpaceX cargo ship flew in March 2020.
VideoSpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket on sunset Starlink flight from Vandenberg Space Force Base
The mission came as SpaceX is preparing to launch a Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station later this week. Liftoff of the Starlink 7-16 mission happened at 7:28 p.m. PT (10:28 p.m. ET, 0228 UTC).