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VideoRussian Earth observing satellite ready for launch
A Soyuz rocket is scheduled for launch Friday with Russia's Resurs P2 satellite, a civilian-operated spacecraft with a sharp-eyed camera to collect high-resolution imagery for Russian government authorities and international agencies.
VideoSoyuz rocket lifts off with Russian eavesdropping satellite
A satellite to collect intelligence for the Russian government launched Thursday on top of a Soyuz rocket and reached orbit a few minutes after liftoff from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome about 500 miles north of Moscow.
VideoPhotos and video: Angara 5’s thunderous liftoff
Russia's new Angara 5 rocket, the biggest Russian launcher since the end of the Cold War, made a pre-dawn blastoff from the wintry Plesetsk Cosmodrome on Tuesday on a successful first flight. See video and photos of the fiery liftoff from the snowy launch pad.
VideoRussia’s Angara 5 rocket launched on successful maiden flight
A new Russian rocket designed as a successor to the workhorse Proton booster lifted off Tuesday on a maiden test flight that could signify Russia's shift away from launching satellites at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
VideoVideo: Orion launch replays
Multiple different camera angles of the Delta 4-Heavy rocket blasting off with NASA's Orion capsule for Exploration Flight Test No. 1 on Dec. 5
VideoVideo: Orion flight preps
This video recaps the Orion spacecraft and its Delta 4-Heavy rocket preparations for launch on the Exploration Flight Test No. 1.
VideoPhotos: Soyuz soars skyward from French Guiana
Flying for the 10th time from a tropical launch facility along the South American coastline, a Russian Soyuz rocket lifted off Dec. 18 and streaked through partly sunny skies with four satellites to extend the reach of the O3b Networks, a company founded to bring broadband to the world's most remote and impoverished countries.
VideoVideo: Inside Orion during high-speed re-entry
New video recorded during NASA’s Orion return through Earth’s atmosphere provides viewers a taste of what the vehicle endured as it returned through Earth’s atmosphere during its Dec. 5 flight test.
VideoRocket landing experiment on tap after SpaceX cargo launch
SpaceX hopes to take a giant leap forward in rocket technology a few minutes after Friday's scheduled launch of a Falcon 9 booster taking up 2.5 tons of critical supplies and experiments to the International Space Station.
VideoULA year in review
A record number of Atlas 5 launches, the return of Delta 2 and a Delta 4-Heavy at the dawn of a new space exploration era highlighted 2014 for United Launch Alliance.