It was a spectacle with two acts at Florida’s Space Coast Sunday night when SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lit up the night skies twice, first when thundering into orbit with the Dragon SpX-9 cargo ship and again when the rocket’s first stage fell back toward a powered landing on a flat pad south of the launch site.
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Video: Falcon 9 Launch with Dragon SpX-9 & Landing at Cape Canaveral
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SpaceX is counting down to a midnight hour launch of the company’s Falcon 9 rocket to dispatch the Dragon SpX-9 cargo spacecraft to orbit and attempt to return the rocket’s first stage to a powered landing at Landing Zone-1 south of Falcon’s Florida launch pad.
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A Soyuz U rocket blasts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the early hours on Sunday, local time, flying towards the sunrise to drop the Progress MS-03 cargo spacecraft off to orbit for a two-day link-up with the International Space Station.
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Planet Labs’ Flock 1E-7 satellite re-entered the atmosphere on July 16, 2016 after almost exactly one year in orbit, collecting Earth imagery that Planet Labs offers on the commercial market.
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SpaceX fired up its Falcon 9 rocket on Saturday in a last critical test ahead of a midnight liftoff on Monday from Florida’s Space Coast to send the Dragon SpX-9 spacecraft into orbit for an important cargo-delivery mission to the International Space Station.
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Russia’s Soyuz rocket made a pre-dawn liftoff from the Baikonur Cosmodrome Sunday morning, flying toward the sunrise to deliver the Progress MS-03 cargo spacecraft to orbit for a resupply flight to the Space Station.
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A busy week is coming up for the International Space Station with a pair of cargo craft inbound to keep up a steady chain of supplies for the six crew members living and working in orbit, circling the Earth 400 Kilometers in altitude.
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The third stage of the Soyuz Rocket that helped boost the Soyuz MS-01 spacecraft into orbit re-entered the atmosphere this weekend, three days after launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and dispatching Anatoli Ivanishin, Takuya Onishi and Kate Rubins into orbit for a four-month stay aboard the International Space Station.
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A crew from Russia, the United States and Japan made an on-time arrival at the International Space Station Saturday morning, docking to the orbital outpost aboard their Soyuz MS-01 spacecraft after a two-day transit.
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The EROS A1 Earth Observation Satellite operated by Isreali company ImageSat International, re-entered the atmosphere on July 7, 2016 after fifteen and a half years in orbit.
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A colorful copper mine, sports stadiums in Greece and Kazakhstan’s Capital were among the first sites imaged by Russia’s Aist-2D satellite, as seen in the mission’ first-light photos released by Roscosmos this week.
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The U.S. Navy’s newest communications satellite, launched from Cape Canaveral two weeks ago, was forced to stop its ascent into a Geosynchronous Orbit due to an on-board anomaly, the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command confirmed in a statement Friday.
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The Soyuz MS-01 spacecraft is inbound to link up with the International Space Station for an early Saturday morning docking to mark the arrival of one returning and two new crew members at the International Space Station for a stay of four-months.
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Russia’s Soyuz rocket lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Thursday, launching into orbit three international crew members aboard the first Soyuz MS spacecraft.
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A veteran Cosmonaut, a former Japanese airline pilot and a trained microbiologist from the United States safely arrived in orbit after riding atop a Soyuz FG rocket blasting off from a remote launch pad in Kazakhstan.
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Russia’s Soyuz rocket lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Thursday, launching into orbit three international crew members aboard the first Soyuz MS spacecraft.
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