There are plenty of hours until the next launch in the line-up, so feel free to catch up on the sleep you missed watching Starlink. Next,Blue Origin's New Shepardrocket is expected to launch theNS-29 suborbital missionfrom its Launch Site-1, in West Texas. The NS-29 launch window ope...
The first launch for a coming Chinese internet megaconstellation turned out to be quite messy. On Tuesday morning (Aug. 6), a Chinese Long March 6A rocketlaunched the first 18 satellitesfor the Qianfan ("Thousand Sails") broadband network, which will eventually host up to 14,000 spacecraft....
Tuesday's mission is SpaceX's 50th launch and the fifth of the year. The satellite Hispasat 30W-6, also known as H30W-6, is operated by Hispasat, a Spanish communications operator serving Spain, Portugal and Latin America. Hispasat 30W-6 serves as a replacement for the Hispasat 30W-4 sa...
The Long March 6C, the latest member of China's Long March carrier rocket family, conducted its debut flight on Tuesday morning, sending four small satellites into space. ▲A Long March-6C carrier rocket carrying four satellites blasts off ...
The space agency’s two-hour launch window opens at 1:04 a.m. ET on Wednesday morning, which is 10:04 p.m. PT on Tuesday night. The excellent weather forecast will be a big relief for mission planners as it allows them to focus entirely on getting everything else right for launch....
The countdown got underway Tuesday, and fueling the 322-foot-tall rocket with more than 750,000 gallons of cryogenic fuel began Tuesday afternoon. WHAT IS NASA'S ARTEMIS 1 MISSION GOING TO DO? Early on, the countdown was going smoothly, but as the launch window approached, the first issue...
NASA will try again to launch its next-generation SLS rocket on Wednesday morning ET (Tuesday evening PT). Here's everything you need to know to view the event.
It took about two hours to vertically transport the large rocket to the launching area Tuesday morning. Final examinations and tests will be conducted on the rocket before the launch. The Long March-5 carrier rocket, currently China's largest launch vehicle, successfully launched China's first Ma...
This was the first launch in three years for the most powerful operational SpaceX rocket, and it sure puts on a good show.
The sun sets on the Ares I-X rocket Monday, Oct. 26, 2009, at Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39-B in Cape Canaveral, Fla. NASA plans a sub-orbital test flight of the rocket early Tuesday morning.(AP Photo/John Raoux)