Video: Proton-M Lifts Off from Baikonur with TV & Internet Satellite
Russia’s Proton rocket blasted off from Site 200/39 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Monday, September 11, 2017 at 19:23:41 UTC with Amazonas 5.
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Month: September 2017
Photos: Soyuz Rocket Rolls Out to Historic Baikonur Launch Pad
Russia’s Soyuz FG rocket emerged from its MIK Assembly Facility at the traditional early morning hour on Sunday to roll to its historic Baikonur launch pad in preparation for liftoff with a crew of three.
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Re-Entry: TuPOD
The TuPOD free-flying CubeSat deployer re-entered the atmosphere on September 8, 2017 after close to nine months in orbit following deployment from the International Space Station.
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Photos from Juno’s Seventh Science Flyby of Jupiter
NASA’s spinning Juno spacecraft has its seventh science flyby over Jupiter’s cloud tops on Friday, September 1st at 21:49 UTC, coming as close as 3,500 Kilometers to the planet’s colorful cloud tops.
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Photos & Video: Soyuz Rocket Assembled for Launch of Next ISS Crew
Engineers at the Baikonur Cosmodrome assembled a Soyuz rocket on September 8, 2017 in preparation for rollout to the historic Site 1/5 for the launch of three International Space Station Crew Members.
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Cape Canaveral Spaceport Braces for Major Hurricane Irma
One of the world’s prime space launch sites is bracing for its encounter with major Hurricane Irma – expected to move across Florida this weekend and bring with it extreme winds, torrential rain and dangerous storm surge.
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Proton Rocket Rolls Out for Monday Night Liftoff with Amazonas 5 Internet & TV Satellite
Russia’s Proton-M rocket completed an early morning rollout to its Baikonur Launch Pad for liftoff Monday night with a commercial communications satellite for Spanish operator Hispasat.
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Fifth X-37B Mission Sent into Orbit by Falcon 9 Rocket, 1st Stage Lands at Cape Canaveral
A SpaceX Falcon 9 blasted into partly cloudy skies over Cape Canaveral on Thursday, carrying into orbit the U.S. Air Force’s X-37B winged space plane on a mostly classified mission to test out new technologies in space and perform a range of experiments out of public view as part of the program’s fifth flight to space.
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Photos: Falcon 9 Lifts Off from Florida with X-37B Space Plane
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A at 14:00 UTC on September 7, 2017 – carrying into orbit the fifth mission of the U.S. Air Force X-37B space plane.
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Video: SpaceX Falcon 9 Sends Fifth X-37B Mission Into Orbit
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A at 14:00 UTC on September 7, 2017 – carrying into orbit the fifth mission of the U.S. Air Force X-37B space plane.
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Ariane 5 Suffers Rare On-Pad Abort after Engine Ignition
Europe’s Ariane 5 workhorse launcher suffered a very rare on-pad abort on Tuesday when aiming for a sunset liftoff from French Guiana with a particularly heavy pair of communications satellites for operators Intelsat and B-SAT
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Ariane 5 Targets Sunset Liftoff with Heavy Communications Satellite Duo
Europe’s Ariane 5 rocket stands ready for a sunset liftoff from French Guiana on its fifth mission of the year, targeting a launch window of 21:51 to 22:24 UTC on Tuesday to send two heavy communications satellites into Geostationary Transfer Orbit for Luxembourg’s Intelsat and Japan’s B-SAT.
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Re-Entry: Start-1 Upper Stage
The upper stage of a Russian Start-1 booster re-entered the atmosphere on September 3rd, 2017 – spending over a decade in orbit after dispatching the EROS A Earth-observation spacecraft in 2006.
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Re-Entry: InflateSail
The InflateSail CubeSat successfully concluded its mission with a speedy orbital decay, culminating with atmospheric entry on September 3, 2017
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Spectacular Photos – Soyuz Touches Down at Sunrise with ISS Crew Trio
Russia’s Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft with three International Crew Members on board safely touched down at sunrise on Sunday via a parachute-and-rocket-assisted landing maneuver in a remote location in South Central Kazakhstan
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Safe Soyuz Touchdown at Sunrise Returns U.S.-Russian Crew after Record-Setting Space Mission
A five-time space flier, a test-pilot-turned-astronaut and a NASA record holder parachuted into the sunrise on Sunday, safely touching down
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Re-Entry: Minotaur IV Rocket Body
The fourth stage of a modified Minotaur IV rocket re-entered the atmosphere on September 1st, 2017 after only six days
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