Tag: Launch
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China successfully launches two satellites for Pakistan
A Chinese Long March 2C rocket lifts off Monday from the Jiuquan space center. Credit: Xinhua A Chinese Long March 2C rocket launched Monday with two satellites for Pakistan’s national space agency, extending a partnership between the two countries’ space programs. The Long March 2C booster lifted off at 0356 GMT Monday (11:56 p.m. EDT…
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Progress freighter completes fastest-ever trip to International Space Station
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 0145 GMT (9:45 p.m. EDT) after docking. A Soyuz-2.1a booster lifted off at 2151:34 GMT (5:51:34 p.m. EDT) Monday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Credit: TV Roscosmos A Russian Progress resupply and refueling craft launched Monday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, riding a Soyuz booster into orbit on a…
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Russian cargo ship to try fast-track rendezvous with space station
A Russian Soyuz rocket and Progress resupply freighter are set for liftoff Monday on an accelerated, less-than-four-hour rendezvous with the International Space Station after last-minute launch scrubs prevented two similar fast-track approach attempts in recent months. The Progress MS-09 cargo craft will blast off on top of a Soyuz-2.1a rocket at 2151 GMT (5:51 p.m.…
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SpaceX could try to land rocket in California later this year
File photo of a Falcon 9 rocket booster landing at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. Credit: SpaceX A recent federal regulatory filing by SpaceX suggests the company may attempt to return a Falcon 9 rocket booster to Vandenberg Air Force Base in California for the first time later this year. Landing a Falcon 9…
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NASA likely to relocate delayed Pegasus launch to Florida
A Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL rocket, carried underneath a modified L-1011 airplane, departed Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on June 6 on the way to Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. The rocket and carrier jet returned to Vandenberg on June 8 after engineers encountered a technical problem with the launch vehicle during the…
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Chinese rocket lifts off with two tech demo satellites
A Long March 2C rocket lifts off with two tech demo satellites Wednesday. Credit: CALT Two Chinese spacecraft designed to test inter-satellite network and Earth observation technologies launched Wednesday on top of a Long March 2C booster. The twin satellites lifted off at 0330 GMT Wednesday (11:30 p.m. EDT Tuesday) from the Xichang space center…
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U.S. Air Force certifies Falcon Heavy rocket, awards launch contract
SpaceX’s first Falcon Heavy rocket blasts off from launch pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Feb. 6. Credit: Walter Scriptunas II / Spaceflight Now The successful maiden flight of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket in February was enough for the U.S. Air Force to certify the huge booster to carry the military’s…
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Navigation satellite launched to join Russia’s Glonass network
A new Russian navigation satellite lifted off Saturday on top of a Soyuz rocket, riding the three-stage booster and a Fregat upper stage into orbit to supplement the country’s Glonass network providing precise global positioning and timing services. The Glonass-M navigation craft, built by ISS Reshetnev in Zheleznogorsk, Russia, lifted off at 2146 GMT (5:46…
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SpinLaunch raises $40M from Airbus, Google and others for space catapult
SpinLaunch’s hangar is home to a vehicle that’s designed to be launched from a catapult. (SpinLaunch Photo) A stealthy Silicon Valley startup called SpinLaunch says it’s raised a total of $40 million from a high-profile array of investors to get a space catapult system ready for launch by 2022. The company, founded in 2015 by…
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Japanese intelligence-gathering satellite successfully launched
とりあえずサブカメラの映像から。H-IIA F39打ち上げ。 pic.twitter.com/JBbj5M66tS — 柴田孔明 (@koumeiShibata) June 12, 2018 An all-weather spy satellite for the Japanese government launched Tuesday on top of an H-2A rocket, extending the country’s surveillance reach with coverage of North Korea and other strategic locations worldwide. The radar-equipped reconnaissance craft lifted off at 0420 GMT (12:20 a.m. EDT) Tuesday from the…