The orange core stage of NASA’s first Space Launch System rocket stands in the B-2 test stand at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. Credit: NASA/Stennis Two months after a first test-firing ended prematurely, NASA plans to ignite the core stage of the first Space Launch System heavy-lift rocket again Thursday for an eight-minute burn …
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A Pegasus rocket underneath its L-1011 carrier jet takes off from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, before a 2013 launch. Credit: NASA The U.S. Space Force is planning for an airborne launch of a solid-fueled Pegasus rocket over the Pacific Ocean by early summer after quietly awarding Northrop Grumman a contract for the mission last …
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The moon as seen from the International Space Station. Credit: Roscosmos Russia’s decision to partner with China on a planned lunar research station, and not join the U.S.-led Artemis moon program, was disappointing after more than two decades of cooperation on the International Space Station, says NASA’s top human spaceflight official. Russian and Chinese space …
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A Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center on Sunday. Credit: Stephen Clark / Spaceflight Now Using a Falcon 9 booster flying for a record ninth time, SpaceX’s swift sequence of launches continued Sunday with a predawn liftoff from the Kennedy Space Center carrying another set of 60 Starlink …
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A Long March 4C rocket lifts off Saturday with three Yaogan 31 military satellites. Credit: Xinhua Three Chinese military satellites launched Saturday aboard a Long March 4C rocket, joining six others China has sent into orbit since the start of the year on ocean surveillance missions. The three Yaogan 31-series satellites took off at 0219 …
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EDITOR’S NOTE: Launch of SpaceX’s next mission is scheduled for 6:01 a.m. EDT (1001 GMT) Sunday. Daylight saving time begins in the United States at 2 a.m. local time Sunday. The Falcon 9 rocket for SpaceX’s 22nd dedicated Starlink mission arrived at pad 39A early Saturday. Credit: Spaceflight Now For the third time in 10 days, …
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STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Wrapping up unfinished work, two spacewalkers stepped outside the International Space Station early Saturday to complete electrical connections with a European experiment platform, to vent and relocate ammonia coolant jumpers and to install a new wireless camera transceiver. They also planned to attach a stiffener to the Quest …
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A pallet loaded with disused batteries was jettisoned from the International Space Station’s robotic arm Thursday. Credit: NASA NASA ground controllers sent commands to the International Space Station on Thursday for release of a 2.9-ton cargo pallet loaded with old batteries, the most massive object ever jettisoned from the orbiting outpost. The garbage carrier is …
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The Hubble Space Telescope in the payload bay of space shuttle Atlantis during the last servicing mission in May 2009. Credit: NASA NASA has partially restored the Hubble Space Telescope to science mode after a software error temporarily halted observations, but engineers continue studying a problem that kept the telescope’s aperture door from closing and …
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China’s Long March 7A rocket lifts off from the Wenchang launch base on Hainan Island. Credit: Xinhua The second flight of China’s new medium-lift Long March 7A rocket successfully placed an experimental satellite into orbit Thursday, following a failed launch of the same configuration last year caused by a problem in a booster liquid oxygen …
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