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Spaceport survey finds little damage from Hurricane Dorian
Launch facilities at Cape Canaveral were spared any significant damage as Hurricane Dorian churned northward off Florida's east coast earlier this week, and employees at the spaceport resumed their normal work Friday.
VideoLive coverage: Mission control loses contact with Indian moon lander
Indian ground teams lost contact with a robotic lunar lander and rover minutes before their scheduled touchdown near the moon's south pole. India was attempting to become the fourth country to achieve a soft landing on the moon.
VideoIndian moon lander ready for final descent
The Vikram lander, part of India's Chandrayaan 2 mission launched in July, will attempt to land near the lunar south pole Friday and deploy a rover to conduct the first on-the-ground scientific surveys away from the moon's equatorial regions.
Mini-helicopter installed on NASA’s next Mars-bound rover
Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California have attached a flying helicopter drone to the belly of the Mars 2020 rover set for launch next July.
VideoExoMars rover leaves British factory, heads for testing in France
The European Space Agency's ExoMars rover left its Airbus factory in Britain on Wednesday, heading for a round of testing in France before integration with its carrier and descent modules on pace for launch toward the Red Planet next July.
SpaceX launches Starship “hopper” on dramatic test flight
SpaceX launched its sub-scale Starship "hopper" spacecraft on a brief unpiloted up-and-down test flight at the company's Boca Chica, Texas, test facility Tuesday, a dramatic demonstration of rocket technology intended to pave the way to a new, more powerful heavy lift booster and, eventually, crew-carrying interplanetary spacecraft.
SpaceX aborts Starhopper test flight, could try again Tuesday
SpaceX aborted an attempted flight Monday of the company's Starhopper test rocket, a prototype for the company's next-generation Starship vehicle. The hop test was to fly to a height of around 500 feet (150 meters) over SpaceX's launch site at Boca Chica, Texas.
Astrobotic lunar lander to launch on ULA’s first Vulcan rocket
Astrobotic, a Pittsburgh-based company developing a robotic lunar lander, will launch its first moon mission under contract to NASA on the debut flight of United Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur rocket in 2021, officials announced Monday.
Chandrayaan 2 arrives in lunar orbit, targets moon landing next month
India's Chandrayaan 2 spacecraft braked into orbit around the moon Tuesday, positioning the robotic science mission for a landing in the moon's south pole region Sept. 6.
NASA directs Alabama space center to manage lunar lander program
Despite protests from Texas lawmakers, NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., will manage the agency's plans to build a lunar landing system that will carry the next man and the first woman to the surface of the moon in 2024, agency Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced Friday.