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Photos: Progress MS-03 supply ship fires away from Kazakhstan

July 18, 2016 Stephen Clark

Russia’s Progress MS-03 cargo crafted rode a Soyuz rocket into orbit Saturday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, beginning a two-day pursuit of the International Space Station.

SpaceX sends supplies to space station, lands another Falcon rocket

July 18, 2016 Stephen Clark

Rising into a midnight sky lit by the full moon, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket took off from Cape Canaveral early Monday with a commercial cargo craft on the way to the International Space Station, then returned to Florida’s Space Coast for a dramatic nighttime landing.

Photos: Falcon 9 rocket lifted vertical for cargo launch

July 17, 2016 Stephen Clark

SpaceX hoisted its Falcon 9 rocket upright Sunday evening, hours before launching on a commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station. Technicians installed time-sensitive supplies into the Dragon cargo capsule earlier in the day.

Timeline for SpaceX’s ninth station resupply launch

July 17, 2016 Stephen Clark

Track the major milestones of Monday’s launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral with a Dragon cargo craft heading for the International Space Station.

Live coverage: Commercial cargo craft completes space station rendezvous

July 17, 2016 Stephen Clark

SpaceX’s Dragon supply ship reached the International Space Station on Wednesday, with astronaut Jeff Williams grappling the unpiloted spacecraft with the research lab’s robotic arm at 6:56 a.m. EDT (1056 GMT) after an automated rendezvous.

Progress supply ship heads for International Space Station

July 16, 2016 Stephen Clark

A Russian Progress cargo spacecraft laden with 5,300 pounds of fuel and supplies blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Saturday, riding a Soyuz rocket smoothly into orbit on the first of two resupply launches heading for the International Space Station in the next two days.

Weather looks favorable for Falcon 9 launch and landing

July 15, 2016 Stephen Clark

Forecasters predict mostly clear skies and light winds at the surface and aloft for Monday’s launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on a resupply mission to the International Space Station, favorable conditions for the booster’s liftoff and landing at Cape Canaveral.

Progress cargo craft to launch space station supplies Saturday

July 15, 2016 Stephen Clark

A Russian automated cargo craft loaded with nearly three tons of fuel, supplies, water and air is set for launch from Kazakhstan at 2141 GMT Saturday on a mission to replenish stockpiles aboard the International Space Station.

Antares rocket’s return-to-flight slips to August

June 26, 2016 Stephen Clark

The first launch of Orbital ATK’s redesigned Antares rocket since an engine failure doomed a mission in 2014 will likely be delayed more than one month until August to complete analysis of data acquired during a first stage hotfire test, officials said.

One last task for doomed cargo ship

June 22, 2016 William Harwood

With one last task to carry out, a space station Cygnus cargo ship loaded with trash and no-longer-needed equipment fell back to Earth Wednesday, hitting the discernible atmosphere 60 miles or so above the Pacific Ocean at nearly 5 miles per second.