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Falcon Heavy

NASA satellite set to conclude successful green propellant demo mission

August 17, 2020 Stephen Clark

A NASA-funded satellite that launched last year on the third flight of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket has begun a sequence of thruster firings to begin falling out of orbit after successfully demonstrating the effectiveness of a non-toxic fuel that could fly on future space missions.

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NASA technology experiments hitching a ride on SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket

June 24, 2019 Stephen Clark

NASA is sending into orbit Monday night a spacecraft to test a safer type of rocket fuel, an ultra-precise atomic clock that could change the way missions navigate in deep space, and an experiment to examine the resiliency of electronics to radiation.

News Headlines

  • L3Harris announces $845 million majority sale of Space Propulsion and Power Systems business
    January 9, 2026
  • Crew-11 to cut mission short and return to Earth due to medical issue
    January 9, 2026
  • FCC gives SpaceX “green light” to expand Starlink constellation to 15,000 satellites
    January 8, 2026
  • NASA weighs an earlier end to the Crew-11 mission after a ‘medical situation’ with an ISS crew member postpones first spacewalk of 2026
    January 7, 2026
  • Dept. of the Air Force opens bidding for Space Launch Complex 14 at Vandenberg SFB
    January 6, 2026
  • SpaceX launches first Starlink deployment mission since problem strikes satellite
    January 4, 2026
  • SpaceX opens 2026 with launch of Cosmo-SkyMed Earth observation satellite for Italy
    January 2, 2026
  • Launch pad issue delays again Falcon 9 launch of Italian Earth observation satellite
    December 27, 2025
  • Former ULA president and CEO Tory Bruno joins Blue Origin
    December 26, 2025
  • H3 rocket suffers upper stage anomaly, fails to correctly deploy navigation satellite
    December 22, 2025
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