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March 25, 2023

Breaking News

[ March 24, 2023 ] Falcon 9 deploys 56 Starlink satellites on SpaceX’s 20th launch of the year Falcon 9
[ March 24, 2023 ] Live coverage: Rocket Lab launches BlackSky satellites from New Zealand Mission Reports
[ March 24, 2023 ] Live coverage: SpaceX launches 56 more Starlink internet satellites Falcon 9
[ March 23, 2023 ] SpaceX pausing launches of new-generation Starlink satellites Falcon 9
[ March 22, 2023 ] Relativity’s 3D-printed Terran 1 rocket reaches space, but falls short of orbit Mission Reports

Minotaur rocket selected to launch military satellite in 2017

July 9, 2015 Stephen Clark

Cape Canaveral will get its first Minotaur rocket launch in 2017, when the solid-fueled booster will send up a U.S. Air Force space surveillance satellite under a contract with Orbital ATK.

Space Florida to take over KSC’s shuttle runway

June 15, 2015 Stephen Clark

NASA will hand over control of the Kennedy Space Center’s disused space shuttle landing strip to the state of Florida on June 22 in a major step toward repurposing the three-mile-long runway for future spacecraft, officials said Monday.

Former Atlas launch pad gets a new tenant

January 24, 2015 Stephen Clark

A decommissioned launch facility at Cape Canaveral where some of America’s first interplanetary missions left Earth will now be used as a test site for a commercial moon lander.