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After another Starlink mission, SpaceX on pace for one launch per week this year

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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket exceeds the speed of sound Thursday, about minute after liftoff from Kennedy Space Center with 47 Starlink internet satellites. Credit: Stephen Clark / Spaceflight Now Another batch of 47 internet satellites launched Thursday on a Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center, heading into the sky to join SpaceX’s Starlink broadband …

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SpaceX preps for another Starlink launch as internet terminals arrive in Ukraine

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A Falcon 9 rocket stands on launch pad 39A Wednesday. Credit: Spaceflight Now SpaceX wheeled a Falcon 9 rocket and 47 internet satellites to a launch pad Wednesday at Kennedy Space Center, ready to blast off Thursday to reinforce the Starlink constellation days after SpaceX expanded the network into Ukraine amid Russia’s invasion of the …

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Russia issues ultimatum to UK government over OneWeb launch

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The Soyuz rocket’s payload fairing containing OneWeb’s next 36 satellites. Credit: Roscosmos Russia’s space agency said Wednesday it will not launch a batch of 36 OneWeb satellites this week unless the UK government gives up its stake in the satellite internet company, a prospect the UK business secretary later confirmed won’t happen. A Russian Soyuz …

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Atlas 5 rocket aces another on-target launch with NOAA weather satellite

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Four solid rocket boosters and an RD-180 main engine power ULA’s Atlas 5 rocket off the pad Tuesday with NOAA’s GOES-T weather satellite. Credit: Alex Polimeni / Spaceflight Now A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral and delivered the GOES-T weather satellite into orbit Tuesday, adding a new spacecraft to …

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Rocket Lab debuts new launch pad, deploys Japanese radar satellite

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Rocket Lab’s Electron launch vehicle takes off from Launch Complex 1B in New Zealand. Credit: Rocket Lab Rocket Lab brought into service a new launch pad at its privately-owned New Zealand spaceport Monday with the successful liftoff of an Electron booster and a commercial Japanese radar imaging satellite. Burning kerosene fuel mixed with super-cold liquid …

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NOAA weather satellite ready for launch after repairs to main camera

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Artist’s concept of the GOES-T satellite in orbit. Credit: Lockheed Martin A new NOAA weather satellite destined to track cyclones, wildfires, and solar flares from a perch high above the Western United States and Pacific Ocean is set for liftoff Tuesday from Cape Canaveral on a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket. The GOES-T satellite …

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NASA official says U.S.-Russian partnership continues on space station

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An astronaut on a departing Crew Dragon spacecraft captured this image of the International Space Station in November. The U.S. segment is situated in the upper left of this view, and the Russian segment is on the lower right. Credit: NASA Kathy Lueders, head of NASA’s human spaceflight operations division, said Monday that joint activities …

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Atlas 5 rocket rolls to launch pad with weather satellite

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United Launch Alliance rolled out an Atlas 5 rocket to its launch pad at Cape Canaveral on Monday, moving the launcher into position for liftoff Tuesday afternoon with a NOAA weather satellite destined to cover the Western United States and the Pacific Ocean. The move began at 10:16 a.m. EST (1516 GMT) with the emergence …

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Russia suspends Soyuz launch operations in French Guiana

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A Soyuz ST-B rocket takes off from the Guiana Space Center on Feb. 10 with 34 new OneWeb internet satellites. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace/P. Piron Blaming European sanctions enacted after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Russian space agency said Saturday it is recalling dozens of engineers and technicians from French Guiana and suspending Soyuz rocket operations there, …

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SpaceX deploys another batch of Starlink satellites

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches with 50 Starlink internet satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. Credit: William G. Hartenstein SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket with a batch of 50 more Starlink internet satellites Friday from the Central Coast of California, the company’s second Starlink mission in four days. Two more Starlink launches …

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