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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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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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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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ULA: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine won’t impact remaining Atlas 5 missions

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File photo of an Atlas 5 rocket on its launch pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Credit: Stephen Clark/Spaceflight Now United Launch Alliance said Friday that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will have no impact on the company’s Atlas 5 rocket program, which has 25 missions left to fly with Russian-made main engines before retirement. …

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Fifty more Starlink satellites ready for launch Friday

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In this file photo from 2019, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands vertical at Space Launch Complex 4-East at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX will launch another 50 Starlink internet satellites Friday from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, continuing what’s expected to be a cadence of nearly one Falcon 9 launch …

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Landsat 9 declared operational, IXPE returns first science imagery

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This image of the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A combines some of the first X-ray data collected by NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer, shown in magenta, with high-energy X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory, in blue. Credits: NASA/CXC/SAO/IXPE Two NASA satellites launched late last year are operational and returning imagery — one looking back at planet …

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Northrop Grumman delivers cargo and new reboost capability to space station

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A Cygnus supply ship is grappled by the space station’s robotic arm Monday. Credit: NASA TV / Spaceflight Now A commercial Cygnus cargo freighter from Northrop Grumman arrived at the International Space Station Monday, delivering more than 8,000 pounds of supplies and a new U.S. capability to reboost the altitude of the complex independent of …

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Next GOES weather satellite installed atop Atlas 5 rocket

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NOAA’s GOES-T weather satellite, encapsulated inside its payload shroud, was transferred to ULA’s Vertical Integration Facility on Thursday for lifting atop an Atlas 5 rocket. Credit: United Launch Alliance A new weather satellite destined for a perch over the Pacific Ocean and the Western United States was mounted on top of a United Launch Alliance …

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Northrop Grumman ready to launch space station resupply mission

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A Northrop Grumman Antares rocket rolls out to its launch pad Feb. 15 at Wallops Island, Virginia. Credit: NASA/Brian Bonsteel An Antares rocket and Cygnus spacecraft are set for launch Saturday on Northrop Grumman’s 17th resupply mission to the International Space Station, hauling more than 8,000 pounds of research experiments and cargo from a launch …

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Engineers pleased with Webb’s progress as mirror alignment gets underway

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STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION This “selfie” was created using a specialized pupil imaging lens inside of the NIRCam instrument that was designed to take images of the primary mirror segments instead of images of space. This configuration is not used during scientific operations and is used strictly for engineering and alignment purposes. …

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