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NASA, Boeing aim to deliver first SLS core stage to Kennedy Space Center by this fall

January 10, 2020 Stephen Clark

After years of delays, the core stage for NASA’s first Space Launch System moon rocket rolled out of its New Orleans factory Wednesday, heading for a NASA site in Mississippi for a test-firing before engineers hope to ship the rocket to its Florida launch base by this fall.

First SLS core stage departs factory

January 8, 2020 Stephen Clark

The heart of NASA’s first flight-ready Space Launch System heavy-lift rocket emerged from its factory in New Orleans Wednesday morning for a barge trip to the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi for an eight-minute test-firing of its space shuttle-era hydrogen-fueled engines.

China’s first launch of 2020 lofts mystery payload

January 7, 2020 Stephen Clark

A Chinese Long March 3B rocket launched a satellite Tuesday toward a position in geostationary orbit more than 22,000 miles above Earth. Chinese state media claimed the mysterious spacecraft has a communication and television broadcast mission, but analysts believe it could enter service for the Chinese military.

SpaceX launches more Starlink satellites, tests design change for astronomers

January 7, 2020 Stephen Clark

Sixty more satellites for SpaceX’s Starlink global Internet network streaked into orbit Monday night from Cape Canaveral, including one spacecraft to test an experimental dark coating to address scientists’ concerns that the thousands of the quarter-ton, flat-panel satellites will impede astronomical observations.

Video: SpaceX launches first mission of 2020 (members only)

January 7, 2020 Stephen Clark

SpaceX launched its first mission of 2020 on Monday night from Cape Canaveral. A Falcon 9 rocket carried 60 satellites into orbit for SpaceX’s Starlink Internet network.

Stacking of ULA’s next Atlas 5 rocket begins at Cape Canaveral

January 6, 2020 Stephen Clark

United Launch Alliance teams began stacking an Atlas 5 rocket inside a vertical hangar at Cape Canaveral Monday in preparation for an early February launch with the Solar Orbiter spacecraft, a joint U.S.-European probe that will take the first pictures of the sun’s poles.

NASA, Boeing aim to deliver first SLS core stage to Kennedy Space Center by this fall

First SLS core stage departs factory

China’s first launch of 2020 lofts mystery payload

SpaceX launches more Starlink satellites, tests design change for astronomers

Video: SpaceX launches first mission of 2020 (members only)

Stacking of ULA’s next Atlas 5 rocket begins at Cape Canaveral

Timeline for Falcon 9 launch of Starlink satellites

SpaceX test-fires rocket ahead of record-setting Starlink launch

Watch as SpaceX test-fires Falcon 9 ahead of Starlink launch (members only)

Live coverage: Falcon 9 rocket launches on first mission of 2020