Tag: Launch
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Northrop Grumman looking into dramatic nozzle anomaly on Omega rocket motor
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Near the end of a ground-shaking test firing of Northrop Grumman’s solid-propellant Castor 600 rocket motor — the first stage of a new booster being designed to launch spy satellites and other national security payloads — a major part of the rocket’s big nozzle appeared to break apart,…
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Soyuz perseveres through lightning strike with Glonass satellite
A Russian Soyuz rocket carrying a Glonass navigation satellite withstood a lightning strike seconds after liftoff Monday, and still delivered its payload to orbit. The Soyuz-2.1b rocket lifted off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in far northern Russia at 0623 GMT (2:23 a.m. EDT; 9:23 a.m. Moscow time) Monday, according to the Russian Defense Ministry. Seconds…
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SpaceX’s first 60 Starlink broadband satellites deployed in orbit
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off Thursday night from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX successfully delivered the first 60 members of the company’s Starlink broadband satellite fleet to orbit Thursday night after a launch from Cape Canaveral. The 60 small satellites, each with a flat-panel design and…
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Chinese state media confirms Long March launch failure
File photo of a previous Long March 4C launch from the Taiyuan space base. Credit: Xinhua A Chinese Long March 4C rocket failed to place its top secret military payload into orbit Wednesday after a launch from the Taiyuan space base southwest of Beijing, according to the state-run Xinhua news agency. The three-stage rocket lifted…
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India plans July launch of Chandrayaan 2 moon mission
An astronaut on the International Space Station captured this photo of moonrise in 2017. Credit: NASA Indian engineers hope to launch the country’s first robotic lunar lander between July 9 and July 16 on India’s most powerful rocket, the head of the Indian space agency said this week. The robotic Chandrayaan 2 mission will launch…
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Indian rocket successfully delivers radar observation satellite to orbit
An Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle lifts off from India’s spaceport on Sriharikota Island early Wednesday, local time. Credit: ISRO An Indian rocket fired into space Wednesday with a high-power radar imaging satellite designed to peer through clouds and darkness to resolve signs of pollution, natural disasters and foreign military movements. The 145-foot-tall (44.4-meter) Polar…
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Live coverage: Indian PSLV launches with RISAT 2B radar satellite
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle with the RISAT 2B radar imaging satellite. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter.
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Indian radar reconnaissance satellite set for launch
An Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle stands at the First Launch Pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Center in preparation for launch Wednesday. Credit: ISRO An Indian satellite designed to collect all-weather, day-and-night radar imagery for military and intelligence authorities is scheduled for launch Wednesday on top of a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle. The RISAT…
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ULA begins stacking Atlas 5 rocket for late June launch
The first stage of ULA’s Atlas 5 rocket arrives at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 41 launch pad Friday. Credit: United Launch Alliance The bronze first stage of United Launch Alliance’s next Atlas 5 rocket arrived at its Cape Canaveral launch pad Friday, where it will be joined by five solid-fueled boosters, a Centaur upper stage and…
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Proton launch provider ILS embraces closer relationship with Roscosmos
Structures, tanks and booster engines for a Russian Proton rocket inside the factory of Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center near Moscow. Credit: Khrunichev International Launch Services, facing headwinds in a commercial launch market now largely shaped by billionaires and satellite miniaturization, has touted a new relationship with the Russian space agency and Glavkosmos…