SpaceX’s tenth operational Dragon cargo spacecraft departed the International Space Station on Sunday to embark on its homecoming that is expected to culminate in a parachute-assisted splashdown in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California, returning valuable samples and experiment hardware from the orbiting laboratory.
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A Delta IV rocket thundered away from Florida’s Cape Canaveral after sunset on Saturday, blazing into the night with a powerful communications satellite for the U.S. and allied nations
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A United Launch Alliance Delta IV M+(5,4) rocket lifted off from Space Launch Complex 37B at 0:18 UTC on Sunday, March 18, 2017, embarking on a 42-minute climb to orbit with the ninth satellite in the Wideband Global Satcom System
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A United Launch Alliance Delta IV M+(5,4) rocket lifted off from Space Launch Complex 37B at 0:18 UTC on Sunday, March 18, 2017, embarking on a 42-minute climb to orbit with the ninth satellite in the Wideband Global Satcom System
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A Delta IV rocket stands ready for a twilight liftoff from Cape Canaveral on Saturday with a powerful military communications satellite set to join the Wideband Global Satcom Constellation operated by the U.S. Air Force.
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Japan successfully launched a radar reconnaissance satellite into orbit on Friday to replenish the country’s fleet of intelligence-gathering satellites primarily dedicated to advance warning of hostile missile launches in Japan’s neighborhood.
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The U.S. Air Force this week it had awarded SpaceX a launch contract for the third GPS III satellite with a targeted launch date in February 2019, marking SpaceX’s second competitively won GPS contract and ending a decade-long monopoly held by United Launch Alliance in the military launch business.
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Japan’s H-IIA rocket is gearing up for liftoff on Friday from the picturesque Tanegashima Space Center on a semi-classified mission for the Japanese Defense Forces.
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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lit up the night skies over Florida’s Space Coast on Thursday, embarking on a rare expendable mission with the heavy EchoStar 23 communications satellite.
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Photos of Falcon 9’s nighttime liftoff on March 16, 2017 with the EchoStar-23 telecommunications satellite.
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Checking off its third success of the year, Falcon 9 delivered its heaviest payload to date to Geostationary Transfer Orbit – leaving no propellant reserve for the powered return of the rocket’s booster.
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The ninth Wideband Global Satcom Satellite is encapsulated in its protective payload fairing and placed atop a Delta IV launch vehicle in preparation for a March 2017 liftoff to join the U.S. military’s worldwide high-capacity communications system keeping deployed troops connected.
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Canadian-based Maritime Launch Services announced on Tuesday it has committed to establishing a launch site in Nova Scotia for Ukraine’s Cyclone-4M (Tsiklon-4M) rocket hoped to become a contender on the international launch market, primarily targeted for medium-class payloads headed to Sun Synchronous Orbit.
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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket was forced to back out of its launch countdown on Tuesday inside T-1 hour to liftoff due to strong winds taking a hold of Cape Canaveral as the result of a low pressure area moving over Florida in the overnight hours and into the day’s launch window.
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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is counting down to a pre-dawn launch from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday, tasked with lifting into orbit a heavy direct-to-home broadcasting satellite for one of the world’s leading telecommunications providers.
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The spherical SpinSat satellite of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory re-entered the atmosphere on March 13, 2017 two and a half years after being released from the International Space Station, marking the first time a non-CubeSat was deployed by the Station’s robots (utilizing the SSIKLOPS deployment mechanism).
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Timelapse video of robotic activities underway outside the International Space Station from March 2 through 8 covering the installation of the Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment III (SAGE-III) and the removal of the Robotic Refueling Mission payloads. This clip plays at 50x real speed, you can use YouTube’s speed adjustment function to slow it down or increase to up to 100x real speed.
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