Tag: NASA
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NASA, SpaceX ‘thread the clouds’ to launch Crew-11 to the International Space Station
Falcon 9 carrying Crew Dragon Endeavour, dodged storm clouds to launch a new crew to the International Space Station on Aug. 1, 2025. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now. Weather threatened to delay the Crew-11 mission for a second time, but the launch team was able to “thread the clouds” and a four-person crew lifted off on…
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NASA, SpaceX launch Crew-11 mission to the ISS
NASA and SpaceX have launched the 11th operational crew rotation mission to the International Space Station under the Commercial Crew Program, Crew-11. Liftoff occurred at 11:43 AM EDT (15:43 UTC) on Friday, Aug. 1, from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Launch was initially scheduled for Thursday, July 31, but,…
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Launch preview: SpaceX, NASA launches Crew-11 following 1-day weather scrub
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, topped with Crew Dragon Endeavour, stands at Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The rocket will launch the Crew-11 mission to the International Space Station. Image: Michael Cain/Spaceflight Now Update July 31, 1:12 p.m. EDT: Cumulus clouds caused a scrub of the mission. Teams are targeting no earlier…
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Joint NASA-ISRO NISAR satellite launches from India
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has launched the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) satellite aboard a Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) Mk. II rocket from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre launch site in southeast India. The mission came just over two months after its EOS-09 mission failed aboard a different rocket type. This launch…
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Launch Roundup: SpaceX to launch Crew-11 to ISS; ISRO and NASA launch new SAR satellite
With 11 launches scheduled worldwide, this week’s launch roundup is among the busiest of 2025 so far. SpaceX is expected to conduct four missions with the workhorse Falcon 9, including the crewed Crew-11 mission to the International Space Station. Blue Origin’s New Shepard took six humans to suborbital space this week. Internationally, the first-ever domestically…
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SpaceX, NASA conduct static fire test of a Falcon 9 rocket ahead of the Crew-11 launch
SpaceX conducts a static fire test of its Falcon 9 rocket at Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 12:30 p.m. EDT (1630 UTC) on Tuesday, July 29, 2025. The hot fire test of the rocket is part of the prelaunch evaluations leading up to the liftoff of the Crew-11 mission to the…
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SpaceX, NASA conduct static fire test of a Falcon 9 rocket ahead of the Crew-11 launch
SpaceX conducts a static fire test of its Falcon 9 rocket at Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 12:30 p.m. EDT (1630 UTC) on Tuesday, July 29, 2025. The hot fire test of the rocket is part of the prelaunch evaluations leading up to the liftoff of the Crew-11 mission to the…
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Crew-11 astronauts, cosmonaut arrive in Florida ahead of launch to the space station
The three astronauts and cosmonaut of the SpaceX Crew-11 mission descend from a Gulfstream jet at Space Florida’s Launch and Landing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. From bottom to top: Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), NASA astronaut Mike Fincke and NASA astronaut Zena Cardman. Image: John Pisani/Spaceflight Now The next…
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NASA probes to study how the solar wind triggers potentially dangerous ‘space weather’
NASA’s TRACERS (Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites) mission launches at 11:13 a.m. PDT (2:13 p.m. EDT) on Wednesday, July 23, 2025, atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The TRACERS mission will study magnetic reconnection around Earth — a process in which…
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SpaceX, NASA launch TRACERS to study Earth’s magnetic field
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB) in California, carrying a series of investigative missions and technology demonstrators designed to enable new capabilities and reduce time to launch, with several of them fielded under various NASA programs. NASA’s TRACERS mission and other payloads launched from Space Launch Complex 4 East…