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Coronavirus delays push back launch of next Landsat to September 2021
The launch of the next Landsat land imaging mission -- a joint project between NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey -- has been delayed until around September 2021 after the effects of the coronavirus pandemic slowed work on the spacecraft in Arizona, NASA officials said.
SLS booster test-fired in Utah
Northrop Grumman test-fired a five-segment solid-fueled booster for NASA's Space Launch System Wednesday at the company's test facility in Promontory, Utah.
Boeing plans second Starliner test flight in December or January
Boeing said Tuesday it is "making excellent progress" toward launching a second unpiloted test flight of its Starliner crew capsule to the International Space Station by the end of this year or in early January, setting the stage for the first Starliner demonstration mission with astronauts in mid-2021.
Penultimate piece of NASA’s first SLS rocket arrives at Kennedy Space Center
One of the final pieces for the first test flight of NASA's huge Space Launch System heavy-lift rocket recently arrived at the Kennedy Space Center, joining other elements already at the Florida spaceport awaiting shipment of the SLS core stage once it completes testing at a NASA facility in Mississippi.
VideoVideo: Rocketcams show Mars-bound rover’s ride into space
Cameras mounted on United Launch Alliance's Atlas 5 rocket show the fiery ride into space for NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover after taking off from Florida's Space Coast.
Photos: Atlas 5 rocket catapults into space with Mars rover
Carrying a $2.7 billion NASA mission to Mars, a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket took off July 30 from Cape Canaveral and fired into a summer sky powered by four powerful solid rocket boosters and a kerosene-burning main engine.
Mars 2020 spacecraft resumes normal operations after post-launch safe mode
NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance mission resumed normal operations Friday after cold temperatures forced the spacecraft into space mode soon after a successful launch from Cape Canaveral.
NASA’s Perseverance rover leaves Earth bound for Mars
Persevering through a global pandemic, a last-minute earthquake, and the trials of a rocket launch, NASA's next Mars rover -- named Perseverance -- took off from Cape Canaveral Thursday on a nearly seven-month journey to the Red Planet with sophisticated science instruments, technology to collect samples for to Earth, and the first interplanetary helicopter that could produce a "Wright Brothers moment" on another world.
VideoAtlas 5 launch timeline on the Mars 2020 mission
This is the launch timeline to be followed by the Atlas 5 rocket’s ascent into space from Cape Canaveral with NASA’s Mars 2020 mission.
VideoULA’s Atlas 5 is NASA’s go-to rocket for nuclear-powered space probes
NASA's Perseverance rover, set for liftoff Thursday on a journey to Mars, posed some unusual challenges for launch crews working with the robot's plutonium-fueled power generator, but United Launch Alliance's Atlas 5 rocket is uniquely suited for the job, the company's CEO says.