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VideoVideo: Fourth X-37B launch highlights
This is the launch highlights reel from United Launch Alliance of the Atlas 5 rocket carrying the fourth mission of the Air Force's X-37B spaceplane.
VideoLaunch story: X-37B embarks on fourth voyage in orbit
A robotic space shuttle with stubby wings, tail fins, its belly covered with black thermal tiles, clam-shell doors that swing open to reveal a payload bay and a solar array for ultralong-duration missions rode into orbit Wednesday on the fourth mission of the Air Force's reusable X-37B spaceplane project.
VideoVideo: Liftoff of Atlas 5 with X-37B on program’s fourth flight
A replay of the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket launching the Air Force's X-37B reusable spaceplane from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
VideoVideos: Launch and landing archive of X-37B mini space shuttle
Relive the launches and landings of the Air Force's X-37B miniature space shuttle on Orbital Test Vehicle missions No.1, No. 2 and No. 3.
VideoProton rocket ready to loft Mexican telecom satellite
A Boeing-built communications satellite for the Mexican government is set for liftoff Saturday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan aboard a Russian Proton rocket.
VideoOTD…May 14 and STS-132
On this day in 2010, Atlantis on her next-to-final mission launches with Russia's Rassvet mini module for the International Space Station
VideoVideo: X-37B payload mated to Atlas 5
Already encapsulated in the 18-foot-diameter nose cone, the Air Force's X-37B spaceplane is hoisted atop the Atlas 5 rocket at Cape Canaveral's Vertical Integration Facility.
VideoOTD…May 11 and STS-125
#OTD...In 2009, the final Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission launched
VideoUAE details ambitious plan for Martian weather satellite
Scientists from the United Arab Emirates have announced the Arab world's first Mars probe will launch in July 2020 and collect global measurements of the Martian atmosphere.
VideoOTD…May 7 and STS-49
#OTD...The maiden launch of shuttle Endeavour in 1992 to rescue the Intelsat 603 satellite