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VideoLive coverage: Atlas 5 rocket launches with NASA-built Mars rover
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket lifted off at 7:50 a.m. EDT (1150 GMT) Thursday from pad 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station with NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover.
VideoLive coverage: Emirates Mars Mission launches from Japan
A Japanese H-2A rocket launched at 5:58 p.m. EDT (2158 GMT) Sunday from the Tanegashima Space Center with the Emirates Mars Mission's Hope orbiter, the UAE's first probe to Mars.
VideoLive coverage: Launch of Emirates Mars Mission rescheduled for Sunday
The launch of a Japanese H-2A rocket with the Emirates Mars Mission, a Mars orbiter developed in partnership between Emirati and U.S. scientists, was delayed Tuesday due to poor weather at the H-2A's launch site on Tanegashima Island in southern Japan. Officials later announced that liftoff would not occur Thursday, again citing bad weather at the launch site. A new launch attempt is scheduled for Sunday, weather permitting.
VideoSLS booster segments arrive in Florida, but stacking on hold until core stage test
Fueled segments of the solid rocket boosters that will lift off on the first flight of NASA's Space Launch System have arrived at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, but officials will hold off on stacking the boosters until the SLS core stage completes a crucial test-firing later this year.
VideoNASA narrows design for rocket to launch samples off of Mars
After years of studies, test-firings and a survey of U.S. industry in preparation for launch of a Mars Sample Return mission in 2026, NASA has settled on a solid-fueled design for a miniature rocket with a first-of-its-kind purpose: Launching a payload from Mars for a trip back to Earth.
VideoDiscoveries at solar system’s distant frontier shed light on how planets form
Data from the encounter of NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft with a frozen reddish snowman-shaped object a billion miles beyond Pluto last year suggest the building blocks of planets may have formed less violently than many scientists expected, officials said Thursday.
VideoNASA’s next Mars rover will soon ship to Cape Canaveral launch site
Fresh off its first terrestrial test drive, NASA's Mars 2020 rover was displayed to media last week at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California before it's packed up and flown across the country to Cape Canaveral in February to begin final launch preparations for liftoff in July.
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.
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.