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Live coverage: Delta 4-Heavy to try again early Thursday

Watch our live coverage of the countdown and launch of a United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket with a classified spy satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office from Space Launch Complex 37B at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. Follow us on Twitter. Launch Pad Live After a one-day delay to resolve a valve problem, the …

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Live coverage: Second-to-last Delta rocket set to loft spy satellite on ULA’s first launch of the year

Watch our live coverage of the countdown and launch of a United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket with a classified spy satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office from Space Launch Complex 37B at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. Follow us on Twitter. Launch Pad Live The second-to-last flight of United Launch Alliance’s Delta rocket is …

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ULA’s Delta rocket assembly line falls silent

File photo of Delta 4 rocket boosters inside ULA’s factory in Decatur, Alabama. Credit: NASA United Launch Alliance closed its Delta rocket assembly line earlier this year in Alabama, when the 389th and last Delta rocket rolled out of the factory for the journey to its launch base in Florida, clearing real estate in ULA’s …

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Live coverage: Indonesian communications satellite ready for launch on SpaceX rocket

Watch our live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with PSN’s SATRIA communications satellite from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. Follow us on Twitter. SFN Live SpaceX is counting down to a Father’s Day launch of a Falcon 9 rocket set to haul into …

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Watch live: Astronauts working to install solar array outside International Space Station

NASA astronauts Woody Hoburg and Steve Bowen ventured back outside the International Space Station Thursday for their second spacewalk in six days to install and deploy another roll-out solar array to augment the power system on the orbiting laboratory. The astronauts switched their spacesuits to internal battery power at 8:42 a.m. EDT (1242 UTC) Thursday …

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SpaceX launches another 52 Starlink internet satellites

Watch a replay of our live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on the Starlink 5-11 mission at 3:10 a.m. EDT (0710 UTC) on June 12 from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. Follow us on Twitter. SFN Live Launch Pad Live SpaceX’s 40th launch …

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Live coverage: SpaceX set to launch another 53 Starlink internet satellites

Watch a replay of our live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on the Starlink 5-11 mission at 3:10 a.m. EDT (0710 UTC) on June 12 from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. Follow us on Twitter. SFN Live SpaceX’s 40th launch of the year …

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Watch live: Astronauts head outside space station to install new solar array

Astronauts Steve Bowen and Woody Hoburg suited up and floated outside the International Space Station Friday for a spacewalk to install and unroll an upgraded solar array wing delivered to the complex earlier this week by a SpaceX Cargo Dragon supply ship. The astronauts switched their spacesuits to internal battery power at 9:25 a.m. EDT …

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Test-firing of ULA’s first Vulcan rocket on tap today

Watch our live coverage of the Flight Readiness Firing for United Launch Alliance’s first Vulcan Centaur rocket at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Follow us on Twitter. SFN Live United Launch Alliance’s first Vulcan Centaur rocket is back on its launch pad at Cape Canaveral for a critical test-firing of its Blue Origin-built BE-4 main engines …

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Cargo Dragon docks at space station

STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION SpaceX’s Cargo Dragon spacecraft docked at the International Space Station on Tuesday. Credit: NASA TV / Spaceflight Now Closing out an automated 18-hour rendezvous, a SpaceX Dragon cargo ship loaded with 7,000 pounds of supplies and equipment, including two add-on roll-out solar blankets, caught up with the International …

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