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VideoLive coverage: SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy lifts off from Kennedy Space Center
SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 2:30 a.m. EDT (0630 GMT) to begin a three-and-a-half hour mission to deliver two dozen satellites into three distinct orbits. The Falcon Heavy's two side boosters returned to Cape Canaveral for successful landings, but the center core stage crashed during a landing attempt on SpaceX's drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.
VideoFalcon Heavy to flex muscles on demanding demo launch for U.S. Air Force
On its third flight Monday night, SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket will fly to three different orbits with two dozen spacecraft on a mission set to last more than six hours, prompting SpaceX founder Elon Musk to declare it the company's "most difficult launch ever."
Watch NASA’s STP-2 technology briefing
Watch as NASA holds a briefing at the Kennedy Space Center on the four agency technology payloads that are part of the STP-2 mission flying into orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket.
Watch a 4K video replay of Falcon Heavy’s static fire test (members only)
SpaceX test-fired a Falcon Heavy rocket Wednesday night at the Kennedy Space Center in preparation for launch June 24 with a stack of weather observation and technology demonstration satellites.
Watch time-lapse of Falcon Heavy going upright (members only)
In this time-lapse video, a Falcon Heavy rocket is lifted into position atop launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in readiness for a pre-flight test firing of its 27 Merlin main engines.
10 years since its launch, NASA lunar orbiter remains crucial for moon landings
Scientists marked the 10th anniversary of the launch of NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter on Tuesday, celebrating a mission that has greatly outlived its original one-year design life and continues taking high-resolution pictures to help U.S. companies and international space agencies select destinations for moon landers.
Live coverage: Falcon Heavy engines test-fired for launch next week
SpaceX's first Falcon Heavy launch for the U.S. Air Force took a major step closer to liftoff with a hold-down engine firing Wednesday night at launch pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Liftoff with a cluster of experimental satellites and weather monitoring craft is set for June 24.
First Falcon Heavy night launch slips to June 24
The first nighttime launch of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket, and the first Falcon Heavy flight for the U.S. military, is set for no earlier than June 24 from pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Air Force officials said Friday.
Scientists call on InSight’s robotic arm to assist stalled heat probe on Mars
Later this month, ground teams will send commands for the InSight lander on Mars to use its robotic arm in a series of carefully-choreographed movements to help inspect, and potentially assist, one of the mission's main geologic instruments that stalled as it hammered into the Red Planet's crust earlier this year.
NASA picks three companies to send commercial landers to the moon
NASA has announced that Astrobotic, Intuitive Machines and OrbitBeyond won contracts to deliver science instruments and technology demonstration payloads to the moon's surface in the first of a series of robotic missions preceding a human return to the moon.