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Webb telescope fueled for flight, ready for lifting atop launcher

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The James Webb Space Telescope is loaded with toxic propellants by technicians wearing protective self-contained suits. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace/P. Piron A crane at the Guiana Space Center in South America will hoist the nearly $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope more than 15 stories above the floor of a rocket assembly hangar this weekend to position …

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Watch live: Alan Shepard’s daughter, Micheal Strahan among six launching to space Saturday

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STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Sixty years after NASA astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American in space, his oldest daughter plans to blast off Saturday on a sub-orbital flight of her own, joining former NFL star and TV host Michael Strahan, two entrepreneurs and a father-and-son duo aboard a Blue Origin New …

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NASA laser communications experiment set for launch into geosynchronous orbit

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Artist’s illustration of NASA’s Laser Communications Relay Demonstration on-board the U.S. military’s STPSat 6 satellite, showing laser links with a ground station and the International Space Station. Credit: NASA A $320 million NASA experiment to test high-speed laser communications links between Earth and space is poised for launch Tuesday, tagging along for a ride to …

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SpaceX resumes work on Starship launch pad at Kennedy Space Center

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Training jets fly over pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center earlier this year ahead of the all-civilian Inspiration4 mission. Credit: Inspiration4 / John Kraus Elon Musk, SpaceX’s founder and chief executive, says crews have started construction of the first Starship orbital launch pad in Florida inside the gates of historic launch complex 39A at …

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Arianespace launches Galileo navigation satellites in final mission before Webb

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A Soyuz ST-B launcher takes off from the Guiana Space Center on Saturday night with two Galileo navigation satellites. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – S. Martin Deployment of Europe’s independent Galileo navigation network resumed Saturday night with an on-target launch of two satellites aboard a Soyuz rocket, the final Arianespace mission …

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SpaceX readies Falcon 9 rocket for test-firing ahead of NASA science probe launch

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SpaceX is preparing for a static fire test this weekend at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in preparation for a launch Dec. 9 with the space agency’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer science mission. The test-firing of the Falcon 9 rocket is expected some time Saturday on pad 39A at the Florida spaceport. SpaceX rolled the rocket, …

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SpaceX aces 27th Falcon 9 rocket flight of the year, a new record

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A Falcon 9 rocket streaks into the sky over Florida’s Space Coast on Thursday night. Credit: Michael Cain / Spaceflight Now SpaceX set a new record Thursday for the most missions by the company’s Falcon rocket family in a year, successfully sending a cargo of 48 Starlink internet satellites and two BlackSky optical Earth-imaging spacecraft …

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Live coverage: SpaceX ready to launch Starlink and BlackSky satellites tonight

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Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The mission will launch SpaceX’s next batch of 48 Starlink broadband satellites and two commercial remote sensing satellites for BlackSky. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. A Falcon …

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Two BlackSky satellites hitching ride on SpaceX Starlink mission

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A Falcon 9 rocket stands on pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station this week in preparation for SpaceX’s next Starlink mission. Credit: Stephen Clark / Spaceflight Now BlackSky said Tuesday it is launching two optical Earth observation satellites as rideshare payloads on a SpaceX Starlink mission planned for liftoff this week from Cape …

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NASA calls off spacewalk due to possible risk of space debris

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STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Two spacesuits inside the Quest airlock on the International Space Station. Credit: NASA A planned spacewalk outside the International Space Station by astronauts Tom Marshburn and Kayla Barron was called off early Tuesday after NASA received an overnight warning about possibly threatening space debris. The station’s seven-member crew …

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