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China adds to Beidou fleet with Long March launch
Another satellite for China's Beidou navigation network rocketed into orbit Monday on top of a Long March 3B launcher.
NASA technology experiments hitching a ride on SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket
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.
Photos: Falcon Heavy reaches pad 39A for its first night launch
SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket rolled out of its hangar and up the ramp to pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, then was raised vertical at the seaside launch complex early Monday in preparation for a late-night liftoff with two dozen weather observation and technology demonstration satellites.
VideoLive coverage: SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy lifts off from Kennedy Space Center
SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 2:30 a.m. EDT (0630 GMT) to begin a three-and-a-half hour mission to deliver two dozen satellites into three distinct orbits. The Falcon Heavy's two side boosters returned to Cape Canaveral for successful landings, but the center core stage crashed during a landing attempt on SpaceX's drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.
Next Atlas 5 launch delayed by battery failure
The next launch of United Launch Alliance's Atlas 5 rocket with the U.S. Air Force's fifth Advanced Extremely High Frequency communications satellite, previously scheduled for Thursday, has been delayed to no earlier than July 12 to replace a failed battery on the vehicle.
VideoFalcon Heavy to flex muscles on demanding demo launch for U.S. Air Force
On its third flight Monday night, SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket will fly to three different orbits with two dozen spacecraft on a mission set to last more than six hours, prompting SpaceX founder Elon Musk to declare it the company's "most difficult launch ever."
Watch NASA’s STP-2 technology briefing
Watch as NASA holds a briefing at the Kennedy Space Center on the four agency technology payloads that are part of the STP-2 mission flying into orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket.
Russia postpones launch of X-ray astronomy mission
Russian officials postponed the planned launch of a Proton rocket with an X-ray astronomy satellite Friday until no earlier than July 12 resolve a problem with an inadvertently drained battery on the vehicle.
Two commercial broadcast satellites launched on Ariane 5 rocket
A pair of television broadcast satellites for AT&T and Eutelsat rocketed into orbit Thursday evening, riding a European Ariane 5 launcher into space in a spectacular sunset launch from the Guiana Space Center on the northeastern coast South America.
Russia to launch science mission probing dark energy
A Russian-built satellite hosting an array of X-ray telescopes is awaiting launch Friday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on a mission to measure the mass and distance of colossal clusters of galaxies throughout the universe.