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Two NASA probes catch first glimpses of primordial targets
Two NASA spacecraft -- the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission and the New Horizons probe at the edge of the solar system -- have captured their first looks at their targets as they approach a pair of primordial relics for the first time.
Installation of ice-measuring satellite caps assembly of last Delta 2 rocket
NASA's ICESat 2 satellite has been bolted atop a United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California as ground teams prepare for the final liftoff of the workhorse launcher Sept. 15.
SLS mobile launch platform to go on the move this week
The mobile platform intended to carry NASA's Space Launch System will trek to the mega-rocket's launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida as soon as Thursday, before heading inside the spaceport's huge Vehicle Assembly Building for the first time next month.
Engineers still hopeful Mars rover will wake up after dust storm
Flight controllers have not heard from NASA's Opportunity Mars rover since June 10 when an increasingly severe global dust storm blocked out the sun, preventing its solar arrays from recharging the robot's batteries. But the dust storm is finally abating and engineers are hopeful the long-lived rover will wake up and phone home in the next few weeks.
Photos: More up-close shots of Parker Solar Probe’s launch
These images from United Launch Alliance and NASA photographers recorded the liftoff of a Delta 4-Heavy rocket from Cape Canaveral on Aug. 12 with NASA's Parker Solar Probe.
VideoRocketcam replay of Delta 4-Heavy rocket’s launch with solar probe
This video released by United Launch Alliance shows the Delta 4-Heavy rocket's predawn liftoff Aug. 12 from the perspective of a downward-facing camera, capturing dazzling views of the fiery takeoff and the dramatic separation of the launcher's two hydrogen-fueled boosters.
First milestones accomplished on NASA’s newly-launched Parker Solar Probe
Space missions dispatched into the solar system often have journeys lasting years before reaching a scientific payoff, but NASA's Parker Solar Probe launched last weekend on a speedy departure from planet Earth is already getting ready to sweep closer to the sun than any spacecraft in history during a flyby later this year.
Photos: Final Delta 2 rocket assembled for launch in California
The step-by-step stacking of United Launch Alliance's final Delta 2 rocket was completed in June at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California for liftoff Sept. 15 with an Earth science satellite for NASA.
Tanking test marks resumption of Delta 2 rocket’s final launch campaign
A team of United Launch Alliance and NASA engineers worked through Delta 2 launch day fueling procedures during a simulated countdown Wednesday for what should be the second-to-last time before the venerable rocket's final liftoff next month from California's Central Coast.
Video replay: Parker Solar Probe launches atop Delta 4-Heavy
Watch a video replay of NASA's Parker Solar Probe lifting off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Launch Complex 37 atop a United Launch Alliance Delta 4 Heavy on August 12, 2018.