Tag: Argentina
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Ten Satellogic Earth-imaging satellites successfully launched
A Long March 6 rocket lifts off Friday from the Taiyuan space center in northeastern China. Credit: Xinhua Ten small high-resolution observation satellites for Satellogic — an Argentine company in the midst of deploying a fleet of Earth-imaging spacecraft — successfully launched Friday on a Chinese Long March 6 rocket. Three small Chinese secondary accompanied…
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Up and down with a Falcon 9 booster
SpaceX has released video from an Aug. 30 launch captured by a camera mounted aboard the first stage of a Falcon 9 rocket, showing the booster’s climb into space from Cape Canaveral and a fiery return to the Florida spaceport, where SpaceX will ready the vehicle for another mission. The Falcon 9 rocket carried…
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SpaceX launches first polar orbit mission from Florida in decades
A Falcon 9 rocket climbs away from pad 40 Sunday at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Credit: SpaceX Vaulting away from Cape Canaveral on an unusual southerly trajectory, a Falcon 9 rocket dodged stormy weather and successfully placed an Argentine radar observation satellite into an orbit over Earth’s poles Sunday on SpaceX’s 100th launch. Scattered…
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Live coverage: SpaceX launches radar satellite for Argentina
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The mission will launch Argentina’s SAOCOM 1B radar observation satellite, plus two secondary payloads for PlanetiQ and Tyvak. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter [tabby title=”SpaceX webcast”] [tabby title=”SpaceX mission…
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Launch of NRO spy satellite delayed at least a week
Credit: United Launch Alliance The launch from Cape Canaveral of a top secret spy satellite for the U.S. government was aborted at the last moment early Saturday as its United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket ignited three main engines, a dramatic cutoff of the countdown that will delay the mission by at least one week.…
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SpaceX poised for back-to-back launches Sunday at Cape Canaveral
EDITOR’S NOTE: SpaceX called off the Starlink launch attempt early Sunday after stormy weather held up preps at pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. For up-to-date information, see our status centers for the Starlink and SAOCOM 1B missions. A Falcon 9 rocket stands on pad 40 Saturday at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Credit: SpaceX…
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Up to three launches planned this weekend from Cape Canaveral
In this long exposure file photo from May 2019, a Falcon 9 rocket is seen streaking into space from Cape Canaveral, with its first stage booster returning to landing minutes later on a drone ship just offshore. Credit: SpaceX Delays have set up the possibility of up to three rocket launches this weekend from different…
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August set to end with string of launches from Cape Canaveral
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 8 p.m. EDT Aug. 24 with Delta 4-Heavy launch delay. A Falcon 9 rocket streaks into space from Cape Canaveral in this long exposure photo taken March 6. Credit: SpaceX Launch teams are readying three rockets for a series of blastoffs this week from Cape Canaveral to loft a classified orbiting spy…
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China launches robotic mission to orbit, land, and drive on Mars
A Long March 5 rocket takes off Thursday from the Wenchang Space Launch Center on Hainan Island with the Tianwen 1 Mars mission. Credit: Xinhua A heavy-lift Long March 5 rocket propelled China’s first Mars landing mission toward the Red Planet on Thursday after launching from a seaside spaceport on Hainan Island, the second of…
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China launches robotic mission to orbit, land, and drive on Mars
A Long March 5 rocket takes off Thursday from the Wenchang Space Launch Center on Hainan Island with the Tianwen 1 Mars mission. Credit: Xinhua A heavy-lift Long March 5 rocket propelled China’s first Mars landing mission toward the Red Planet on Thursday after launching from a seaside spaceport on Hainan Island, the second of…