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  • [ November 27, 2025 ] NASA astronaut, two cosmonauts take Thanksgiving Day ride to space station News
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  • [ November 26, 2025 ] SpaceX scrubs Transporter-15 launch, targets Friday for next attempt Falcon 9
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Mission Reports

Soyuz launch deploys last of O3b’s first-generation broadband satellites

April 4, 2019 Stephen Clark

The launch of a Soyuz rocket from French Guiana with four more satellites Thursday to join SES’s O3b broadband network will help satisfy growing bandwidth demands in Latin America, Africa and the Pacific islands until the deployment of a new generation of upgraded spacecraft in 2021, SES officials said.

Mission Reports

Live coverage: Four more O3b broadband launch aboard Soyuz rocket

April 4, 2019 Stephen Clark

Four more satellites for SES Networks’ O3b broadband fleet launched Thursday aboard a Soyuz rocket. Liftoff of the Soyuz launcher from the Guiana Space Center in South America occurred at 1703 GMT (1:03 p.m. EDT).

Mission Reports

Two Soyuz rockets rolled out for launches on different continents

April 2, 2019 Stephen Clark

Russian ground crews working in starkly different environments on the barren steppes of Kazakhstan and in the lush jungles of South America are readying a pair of Soyuz rockets for two launches Thursday, one to resupply the International Space Station, and another to broaden the capacity of SES’s O3b Internet network.

News Headlines

  • NASA astronaut, two cosmonauts take Thanksgiving Day ride to space station
    November 27, 2025
  • BlackSky confirms it was the ‘confidential customer’ on recent Rocket Lab Electron rocket launch
    November 27, 2025
  • SpaceX scrubs Transporter-15 launch, targets Friday for next attempt
    November 26, 2025
  • NASA, Boeing pivot Starliner-1 mission from 4-person astronaut flight to cargo-only
    November 24, 2025
  • SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites from Vandenberg on brand new Falcon 9 rocket
    November 23, 2025
  • Falcon 9 rocket continues Starlink deployments with launch from Cape Canaveral
    November 21, 2025
  • Falcon 9 Starlink mission marks 100th launch of the year from Florida’s Space Coast
    November 20, 2025
  • SpaceX resumes early evening launches after FAA restrictions lifted
    November 18, 2025
  • SpaceX launches joint NASA-European sea level monitor
    November 17, 2025
  • SpaceX Falcon 9 to launch international satellite to keep watch on rising sea levels
    November 17, 2025
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