Tag: Launch
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Falcon 9 / TESS launch replays
Cameras in various locations at Cape Canaveral and Kennedy Space Center capture the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying NASA’s TESS planet-hunting telescope. Video: NASA TV.
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Russian communications satellite launched aboard Proton rocket
File photo of a previous Proton rocket launch. Credit: Roscosmos Russia launched a military communications satellite Wednesday, sending a data relay and broadcasting station to an orbit more than 22,000 miles above the equator aboard a Proton rocket and a Breeze M upper stage. The three-stage Proton booster lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in…
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DARPA Launch Challenge offers $10M top prize for rapid-turnaround orbital liftoffs
The DARPA Launch Challenge is designed to provide more incentives for the development of flexible, responsive launch systems. (DARPA Illustration) COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Almost 15 years after a $10 million competition gave a boost to private-sector spaceflight, the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is kicking off another launch contest with a $10 million grand…
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Rocket Lab postpones first commercial launch after issue during fueling test
Rocket Lab’s third two-stage Electron rocket on its launch pad in New Zealand last week in advance of a fueling test. Credit: Rocket Lab/Peter Beck Rocket Lab said Tuesday it will push back the first commercial launch of its light-class Electron rocket from New Zealand by a few weeks to address a problem uncovered during…
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Video: Falcon 9 stands at the launch pad
The Falcon 9 rocket stands on launch complex 40 on 16 April as SpaceX prepares to launch NASA’s TESS spacecraft on a mission to seek out new planets beyond our Solar System. Video: Steven Young/Spaceflight Now.
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SpaceX poised to launch planet-hunter
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Artist’s concept of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. Credit: NASA SpaceX readied a Falcon 9 rocket for takeoff Monday to launch a planet-hunting satellite for NASA that will monitor the light from countless stars to find potentially habitable planets worthy of follow-up studies by more powerful ground- and…
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Video: Mission officials brief reporters on TESS launch
Officials from NASA, research institutions and companies involved in the development and launch of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite briefed reporters in the mission Sunday, the day before its scheduled liftoff from Cape Canaveral. The two briefings focused on the TESS mission, spacecraft, launch and scientific objectives.
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Falcon 9 launch timeline with TESS
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated April 18 with new launch date. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is set for liftoff from Cape Canaveral on Wednesday, heading east over the Atlantic Ocean to deliver NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite into orbit approximately 49 minutes after launch. The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) rocket is poised for launch from pad 40 at Cape…
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Photos: TESS prepared for launch in Florida
These photos show NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite undergoing preparations for launch at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. These photos show the 798-pound (362-kilogram) spacecraft, built by Orbital ATK, deploying its power-generating solar panels during a ground test in February at KSC’s Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility. TESS was encapsulated inside the Falcon 9 rocket’s…
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Live coverage: NASA planet-hunting satellite launched by SpaceX
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral with NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter. [tabby title=”NASA TV”] [tabby title=”SpaceX Webcast”] [tabby title=”SFN Clean Feed”] [tabbyending]