Rocket Lab’s next launch will feature mid-air booster recovery attempt

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A camera on Rocket Lab’s recovery helicopter shows the Electron booster under its parachute following launch in May. Credit: Rocket Lab Rocket Lab will try again Friday to catch an Electron first stage booster after launching from New Zealand with a small Swedish science satellite, six months after the company’s first mid-air recovery attempt. The …

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SpaceX launches Airbus-built TV broadcasting spacecraft for Eutelsat

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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral at 1:22 a.m. EDT (0522 GMT) Thursday with the Hotbird 13G communications satellite. Credit: Stephen Clark / Spaceflight Now SpaceX launched the second in a series of three Falcon 9 rocket missions early Thursday for the European satellite operator Eutelsat, delivering to orbit a television broadcasting …

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NASA’s Artemis 1 moon rocket ready for ride back to launch pad

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NASA’s Space Launch System moon rocket inside High Bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building. Credit: NASA After replacing and recharging batteries in the Vehicle Assembly Building, NASA ground teams plan to roll the more than 30-story-tall Space Launch System rocket back to its launch pad early Friday at Kennedy Space Center for another try …

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Live coverage: SpaceX counting down to late-night launch for Eutelsat

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Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. The Falcon 9 rocket will launch Eutelsat’s Hotbird 13G geostationary communications satellite. Follow us on Twitter. SFN Live SpaceX is poised to launch a Falcon 9 rocket Wednesday night from Cape …

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SpaceX teams in Florida prep for second launch in as many days

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An Airbus Beluga cargo plane delivered the Hotbird 13G communications satellite, seen here inside its shipping container, to Kennedy Space Center on Oct. 15. Credit: Airbus One day after launching a triple-body Falcon Heavy rocket a few miles up the coast, SpaceX rolled its workhorse Falcon 9 rocket to a launch pad at Cape Canaveral …

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ep.365: Precise Navigation using LEO Satellites, with Tyler Reid

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Dr. Tyler Reid, co-founder and CTO of Xona Space Systems, discusses a new type of global navigation satellite system (GNSS). Xona Space Systems plans to provide centimeter-level positioning accuracy and will serve the emerging autonomous vehicle community, where precise navigation is key. Reid discusses the advantages and technical challenges of a low Earth orbit (LEO) …

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Falcon Heavy ‘simply outstanding’ on SpaceX’s first launch to geosynchronous orbit

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SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy climbs into space from Kennedy Space Center on the U.S. Space Force’s USSF-44 mission. Credit: Michael Cain / Spaceflight Now / Coldlife Photography The U.S. Space Force confirmed Tuesday that a Falcon Heavy launcher placed two main payloads and at least three smaller rideshare satellites directly into a high-altitude geosynchronous orbit after …

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Construction of Chinese space station enters final phase with module launch

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A Long March 5B rocket hauls the Mengtian module into orbit for China’s Tiangong space station. Credit: China Manned Space Agency China launched a heavy-lift Long March 5B rocket Monday with the Mengtian lab module, the final major element to complete the initial assembly and outfitting of the Chinese Tiangong space station. The lab module …

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Falcon Heavy rocket on the launch pad for one of SpaceX’s most complex missions

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The 27 Merlin engines on the Falcon Heavy’s three first stage boosters. Credit: SpaceX The first Falcon Heavy rocket flight since 2019 is scheduled Tuesday to kick off SpaceX’s longest-duration launch mission to date, a roughly six-hour climb into geosynchronous orbit more than 20,000 miles over the equator with a bundle of payloads for the U.S. …

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