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Soyuz launch double-header set for Friday
Russian launch crews on two continents are putting the final touches on a pair of Soyuz rockets scheduled to blast off less than two hours apart Friday -- one carrying a three-man crew to the space station, and another boosting two European navigation satellites into orbit from the Amazon jungle.
ULA wants you to help pick name of new rocket
Eagle? Freedom? GalaxyOne? United Launch Alliance wants public input in the naming of a next-generation launcher designed to replace the historic Atlas and Delta rocket lines in the 2020s.
Preview: 10 months, 4 launches to finish GPS Block 2F deployment
The final year of launches in the current breed of Global Positioning System navigation satellites kicks off Wednesday afternoon aboard a Delta 4 rocket from Cape Canaveral.
SpaceX swaps order of next two Falcon 9 launches
Confronted with pesky problems in the Falcon 9 rocket's helium pressurization system, SpaceX has shuffled the order of the next two launches, choosing to go ahead with the liftoff of a Dragon supply ship on a cargo delivery flight to the International Space Station around April 10.
Sierra Nevada proposes all-in-one solution for ISS resupply
Leveraging progress made to build a human-rated space plane for NASA's commercial crew program, Sierra Nevada Corp. said this week it has offered a cargo-carrying version of the Dream Chaser spacecraft to resupply the International Space Station beginning in 2018.
Delta 4-Heavy selected for launch of solar probe
A NASA spacecraft that will fly closer to the sun than any mission before will launch on a Delta 4-Heavy rocket in 2018, requiring a boost from the largest active launcher in the U.S. inventory and repeated flybys around Venus to reach an operating post inside the solar atmosphere.
Stats: Delta 4 history and manifest
Here's a look by the numbers of the previous Delta 4 flight history and the remaining flights of the rocket named Delta.
Photos: Next GPS satellite readied for launch
The U.S. Air Force's ninth Global Positioning System (GPS) 2F satellite, GPS 2F-9, is encapsulated in the Delta 4 rocket's four-meter-diameter nose cone at a processing facility and then moved to the launch pad at Complex 37 for mating to its booster inside the mobile service tower.
More views of Thursday night’s Atlas 5 launch
Spaceflight Now's readers sent in photos from Thursday night's launch of four NASA satellites aboard an Atlas 5 rocket, marking a fiery start to a mission probing the fundamental workings of the magnetic bubble shielding Earth from cosmic radiation.
Snapshots from Atlas 5 launch
The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket blasted off Thursday night with NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale satellite quartet in a successful flight from Cape Canaveral.