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SpaceX launches Transporter 7 rideshare mission from California
After several delays to wait for improved weather, SpaceX sent a Falcon 9 rocket into space Saturday from California's Central Coast with 51 small satellites, payloads, and orbital transfer vehicles from customers around the world.
VideoLive coverage: SpaceX launches rideshare mission with 51 small payloads
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, with 51 small satellites, hosted payloads, and orbital transfer vehicles heading into polar orbit on the Transporter 7 mission. Liftoff occurred at 11:48 p.m. PDT Friday (2:48 a.m. EDT; 0648 UTC Saturday).
“Big relief” as Europe’s Vega rocket returns to service with successful launch
A European Vega rocket deployed six commercial satellites in orbit, including a new Airbus-built eye-in-the-sky for high-resolution Earth-imaging, on a successful launch from French Guiana on Wednesday night after two of the last three Vega missions failed.
VideoLive coverage: Arianespace launches Vega rocket from French Guiana
After two of the last three Vega rocket launches ended in failure, Arianespace launched another Vega launcher from French Guiana at 9:50 p.m. EDT Wednesday (0150 GMT Thursday) with Airbus's Pléiades Neo 3 commercial Earth observation satellite and five secondary payloads.
Vega rocket’s return-to-flight launch set for Wednesday night
Six satellites are set to ride a light-class European Vega rocket into orbit from French Guiana on Wednesday night, the first Vega launch since a failure last year that officials attributed to human error.
VideoSoyuz launches with 22 satellites
A Russian Soyuz rocket launched Monday from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome with 22 satellites for operators in Russia, Europe, Canada, the United States, and the United Arab Emirates.
Soyuz rocket and Fregat upper stage deliver 33 satellites to three different orbits
A new Russian weather satellite, a CubeSat to test a Silicon Valley startup's water-based propulsion system, and eight more members of Spire's commercial fleet of multipurpose nanosatellites were among 33 spacecraft that rode a Soyuz rocket into orbit Friday from Russia's Far East.
VideoLive coverage: Soyuz rideshare mission lifts off from Vostochny Cosmodrome
A Soyuz-2.1b rocket lifted off at 0541 GMT (1:41 a.m. EDT) Thursday from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia's Far East, carrying a new Russian weather satellite and 32 secondary payloads into polar orbit.
VideoRussian Soyuz launcher set to carry 33 satellites into orbit
A Soyuz rocket is scheduled for liftoff Friday from the Vostochny Cosmodrome, Russia's newest launch site, with 33 satellites from 12 countries on-board to collect weather data and test new space technology.
Indian military satellite, 20 more Planet imaging CubeSats launched by PSLV
An Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle blasted off and successfully deployed a military electronic surveillance satellite and 28 nanosatellites for companies in the United States, Lithuania, Spain and Switzerland at two different altitudes Monday, before the rocket's upper stage began an extended mission as a solar-powered experiment platform in low Earth orbit.