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Live Coverage: Antares explodes moments after launch
An Antares rocket carrying the Cygnus cargo ship has exploded moments after lift off from Wallops Island, Virginia.
SpaceX’s Dragon supply ship returns to Earth
Wrapping up SpaceX's fourth operational resupply flight to the International Space Station, a Dragon cargo capsule departed the high-flying research complex, dropped out of orbit and descended to a parachute-assisted splashdown in the Pacific Ocean with nearly 3,300 pounds of biological specimens and hardware.
Atlas 5 to fly Wednesday, continuing rapid deployment of GPS satellites
Launching new Global Positioning System navigation satellites at a rate not seen in 21 years, this year's fourth such deployment is coming up at midday Wednesday, Oct. 29 by an Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral.
Antares rocket moved to launch pad in Virginia
Ground crews transferred an Antares rocket out of an assembly building to a launch pad on Virginia's Eastern Shore in a major step before liftoff on Orbital Sciences' third flight to resupply the International Space Station.
LIVE COVERAGE: Dragon cargo capsule returns to Earth
Closing out a five-week mission, a SpaceX Dragon cargo craft departed the International Space Station on Saturday. The spaceship will dive back into Earth's atmosphere, deploy parachutes and splash down in the Pacific Ocean at 3:39 p.m. EDT (1939 GMT) about 265 miles west of Baja California.
First commercial mission to the moon launched from China
A modest privately-funded instrument package built by a company in Luxembourg became the first commercial to the moon to get off the ground with a fiery nighttime launch aboard a Chinese rocket.
ILS plans to return Proton to commercial service next month
Nearly a year since its last mission in February, International Launch Services aims to resume commercial flights of Russia's Proton rocket in late November with the Astra 2G communications satellite for SES.
Chinese probe launched on round-trip flight to the moon
China launched a demonstrator probe on a round-trip flight around the moon to test out a heat shield and landing capsule planned for use on a lunar sample return mission in 2017.
Orbital Sciences cleared for final Antares launch preps
Orbital Sciences Corp. is set to launch its next commercial resupply flight to the International Space Station on Monday after inspections revealed a rocket tracking station in Bermuda weathered a direct hit from Hurricane Gonzalo last week.
Russian cosmonauts wrap up successful spacewalk
Two cosmonauts ventured outside the International Space Station, jettisoning three no-longer-needed components and carrying out a photo survey of the Russian segment of the lab complex in the seventh and final spacewalk planned by the station crew this year.