Private spaceship set for historic arrival at station
A cargo carrier built by SpaceX will move in for berthing with the International Space Station on Friday, making an automated laser-guided approach to the complex in a bid to become the first commercial spacecraft to reach the massive orbiting laboratory. You can follow the entire mission on Spaceflight Now with comprehensive coverage.
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Dragon circling Earth after flawless predawn blastoff
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket radiantly rose into a serene predawn sky over Florida on Tuesday, successfully launching a privately-owned capsule named Dragon into orbit on a seminal test flight to the International Space Station.
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Dragon flight testing to begin soon after launch
SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft will almost immediately begin testing new components following its deployment in orbit, extending solar arrays, demonstrating sensors for precise navigation, and proving its safety procedures during the capsule's first day in space.
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America's annular eclipse
There was a rare treat for U.S. observers Sunday when an annular eclipse is visible from parts of seven western U.S. states, with a partial eclipse visible across much of North America, except for areas near and along the Atlantic coast.
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Falcon 9 countdown aborted in last second before launch
Computers automatically aborted the countdown Saturday for SpaceX's first commercial flight to the International Space Station, scrubbing the launch a half-second before liftoff of the Falcon 9 rocket.
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Q&A with SpaceX founder and designer Elon Musk
Spaceflight Now spoke with Elon Musk, the father of SpaceX and chief designer of the Falcon and Dragon vehicles, on the eve of his company's biggest test yet - the historic first commercial flight to the International Space Station.
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SpaceX's commercial mission is 'just a test flight'
Observers from Cape Canaveral to Capitol Hill will be keenly watching SpaceX's commercial voyage to the International Space Station launching Saturday, and although officials bill the mission as a test flight, its outcome could buoy or blunt support for a private space race in human spaceflight.
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Japan's H-2A rocket orbits craft to aid climate science
A Japanese H-2A rocket deployed four satellites in orbit Thursday, putting up a research mission to track the changing role of water in Earth's climate and a South Korean payload to gather high-resolution photos for environmental monitoring and security authorities.
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Canadian TV broadcast satellite soars to space
A new broadcasting spacecraft for direct-to-home satellite television to two million customers across Canada successfully flew into orbit atop a Russian Proton rocket to orbit Thursday.
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Spy satellite launched from Russia on Soyuz booster
Russia launched a Soyuz rocket Thursday with a clandestine photo surveillance satellite designed to collect intelligence on strategic sites around the world for defense purposes.
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AEHF 2 communications satellite keeps on climbing
Avoiding the perilous past of its forerunner, the U.S. Air Force's newly launched anti-jam communications satellite has successfully fired its main engine three times to maneuver toward the intended operational orbit.
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Three-man crew docks at International Space Station
The Soyuz spacecraft carrying three new residents for the International Space Station made a flawless approach and docking to the orbiting lab complex Thursday, linking up at 12:36 a.m. EDT (0436 GMT) some 249 miles above Earth.
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Galaxy-hunting telescope to live on with private funding
NASA has handed over an ultraviolet space telescope to the California Institute of Technology, officials announced Wednesday, allowing the observatory to continue surveying the cosmos for at least three years.
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NASA intends to use Delta 4 upper stage on moon flights
NASA says Boeing is best equipped to provide two cryogenic upper stages derived from the Delta 4 rocket to power the agency's Orion capsule on a test flight around the moon in 2017 and send astronauts on a voyage to lunar orbit in 2021, according to documents posted on a federal government procurement website.
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Space station managers give go for SpaceX launch
NASA's space station management team on Tuesday approved plans to launch SpaceX's first commercial flight to the complex Saturday, signing off on software changes governing the privately-built capsule's final approach to the orbiting outpost. Launch from Cape Canaveral is set for Saturday at 4:55 a.m. EDT (0855 GMT).
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Ariane 5 lifts Lockheed Martin satellite milestone
An Ariane 5 rocket blasted from a South American spaceport precisely on schedule Tuesday carrying a pair of mirror-like "sister" satellites built in the United States by Lockheed Martin for telecommunications operators in Japan and Vietnam.
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Embarking on a four-month mission to utilize the International Space Station and conduct diverse research at the orbiting laboratory, a NASA astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts rocketed off the planet aboard a Soyuz booster at 11:01 p.m. EDT Monday night from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
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Launch preps begin for next Chinese human spaceflight
The Long March rocket and Shenzhou spacecraft for China's next manned space mission are being readied for blastoff as soon as June from the country's Jiuquan launching base.
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Two more military missions booked on EELV rocket fleet
As the nation's Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle fleet prepares for its 50th flight next month, the U.S. Air Force on Monday announced the purchase of an Atlas 5 and a Delta 4 for future military satellite deployments.
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Mars rover test-drive in California sand dunes
Using California sand dunes in the Mojave Desert, Mars Science Laboratory team members are practicing how to drive the car-sized Curiosity rover when it arrives on the red planet in August.
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ATK adds crew capsule to Liberty rocket proposal
Joining a growing list of aerospace companies competing to build a commercial crew taxi for NASA, rocket contractor ATK announced Wednesday it could launch astronauts into orbit by 2015 aboard the firm's Liberty rocket and a composite module derived from existing programs.
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Dream Chaser test plan outlined by Sierra Nevada
Sierra Nevada Corp., one of the firms vying to build a commercial space taxi for NASA, plans a series of automated and piloted atmospheric flight tests of its lifting body Dream Chaser spacecraft beginning this summer, ultimately leading to an orbital demonstration mission in 2016, according to company managers.
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Chinese spy satellite successfully launched
China launched an optical military reconnaissance satellite Thursday aboard a Long March 4B rocket, successfully orbiting another member in a fleet of spacecraft spying for Chinese intelligence agencies.
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ESA declares Envisat observing satellite lost
The European Space Agency on Wednesday declared the Envisat environmental satellite lost one month after the bus-sized craft unexpectedly stopped communicating 10 years after its launch.
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Photo gallery: Atlas 5 rocket thunders into space
Marking its 30th flight, the Atlas 5 rocket successfully launched Friday afternoon carrying a secure communications satellite for the U.S. government. It also marked United Launch Alliance's 60th mission. Relive the liftoff through the camera lenses of ULA's photographer.
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Satellite for secure wartime communications goes up
Forging a new constellation of ultra-secure communications satellites that will ring the globe to link the president with military forces anywhere on the planet, an Atlas 5 rocket roared to space Friday to continue putting the pieces in place for the warfighter.
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Chinese mapping satellite in orbit after weekend launch
A Long March rocket boosted a Chinese mapping satellite into orbit Sunday from the Jiuquan launching base in the Gobi desert, according to state media reports.
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SpaceX sets May 19 launch for flight to space station
The need for additional software assurance testing has again delayed the launch of SpaceX's commercial demonstration flight to the International Space Station, the company announced Friday, until at least May 19.
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Boeing's capsule landing system tested in Nevada
Boeing conducted a successful end-to-end test Wednesday of the landing parachutes for the CST-100 commercial crew spacecraft, marking the second drop test of the boilerplate capsule in a month.
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Enceladus gets last visit from Cassini until 2015
NASA's Cassini spacecraft skimmed 46 miles above the icy surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus on Wednesday, taking radio measurements to deduce what might feed powerful geysers of water vapor streaming into space from the enigmatic moon's south pole.
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NASA: Competition critical to commercial crew strategy
NASA managers said Tuesday a proposal by lawmakers to immediately select a single provider for commercial crew transportation services would undermine the agency's strategy of reducing the cost of space travel through private industry.
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Jupiter is destination of ESA's next planetary probe
The European Space Agency announced Wednesday it will launch a robotic mission in 2022 on a tour of Jupiter's icy moons to examine the subsurface oceans and frozen crusts of Ganymede, Callisto and Europa.
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Next Monday's SpaceX Falcon 9 launch in doubt
The long-awaited launch of a commercial cargo ship bound for the International Space Station almost certainly will be delayed from May 7 to at least May 10 and possibly longer, sources said late Tuesday, to give company engineers additional time to complete pre-flight tests and checkout.
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Radiation Belt Storm Probes arrive at Florida launch site
Twin NASA satellites designed to probe and predict changes in Earth's radiation belts arrived at the Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday, ready to begin several months of testing and assembly before lifting off on an Atlas 5 rocket in August.
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Indian space chief updates GSLV launch manifest
India has scheduled up to four space launches in the next year, including two crucial tests of the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle, a medium-class rocket envisioned as the cornerstone of Indian ambitions for fully independent access to space.
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Falcon 9 engines ignited on pad for preflight check
Nine kerosene-fueled engines mounted on the bottom of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket fired at full power for two seconds Monday, completing a key test on a Cape Canaveral launch pad before departing to the International Space Station as soon as May 7.
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Long March launcher boosts twin satellites into orbit
Two satellites for China's Beidou navigation system launched aboard a Long March 3B rocket Sunday, further expanding the space-based positioning network as China eyes global service by 2020.
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Space shuttle Enterprise lands in the Big Apple
The trailblazing prototype for the space shuttle fleet, the Enterprise, was hauled Friday atop a modified Boeing 747 to New York City where it will become a new exhibit aboard the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, a vintage aircraft carrier turned museum anchored in the Hudson River.
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MetOp satellite grounded by Soyuz drop zone dispute
Launch of Europe's second MetOp weather observatory has been delayed, potentially until late July, by a squabble between Russia and Kazakhstan over drop zones for the lower stages of the satellite's Soyuz rocket, the European Space Agency announced Friday.
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Dragon bolted to Falcon 9 ahead of engine firing
Engineers connected SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft to its Falcon 9 launcher Thursday, setting the stage for a busy weekend of preparations for a brief firing of the rocket's nine main engines on the launch pad Monday.
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International Space Station trio comes back to Earth
A three-man crew from NASA and Russia completed its half-year mission aboard the International Space Station and returned to Earth in a parachute-equipped Soyuz descent capsule Friday. Touchdown in Kazakhstan occurred as expected at 7:45 a.m. EDT (1145 GMT).
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Astrium UK picked to build Solar Orbiter spacecraft
The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter spacecraft, due for launch in early 2017, will be built in Britain under a $400 million contract signed Thursday with Astrium.
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Scientists use Dawn to pull back the veil on Vesta
Since being tugged into orbit around asteroid Vesta last July, NASA's Dawn spacecraft has pulled back the curtain on the object's surface characteristics, internal structure and wild temperature swings, revealing Vesta to be a complex world much like a miniature planet.
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India achieves 'grand success' with rocket launch
India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle blasted off Thursday with a radar surveillance satellite designed to obtain all-weather, day-and-night ground imagery for national security and environmental applications.
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SpaceX launch preps press on with Dragon fueling
While engineers analyze and tweak software coding, SpaceX is continuing with launch preparations for the scheduled May 7 blastoff of the Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station. Technicians have completed loading the automated capsule with maneuvering fuel, and the Dragon will be mated with its Falcon 9 rocket Thursday.
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Congress wary of fully funding commercial crew
Senate and House budget bills would cut up to 40 percent from NASA's requested budget to pay for new commercial spacecraft to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station and end U.S. reliance on Russia for crew transportation.
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Atlas 5 topped with anti-jam communications satellite
A gleaming new spacecraft valued at over $1 billion to serve in the top-notch mission of providing the president and military leaders a secure and survivable communications link in wartime was mounted atop its Atlas 5 rocket at Cape Canaveral on Monday.
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More software reviews will delay SpaceX demo flight
Launch of SpaceX's commercial Dragon cargo freighter to the International Space Station will be delayed until at least early May to give engineers more time to wring out the craft's software, the company announced Monday.
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Commercial Proton rocket deploys Yahsat into orbit
The Russian Proton rocket carrying a Middle Eastern spacecraft for high-data-rate communications launched Monday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 6:18 p.m. EDT (2218 GMT). It took 9 hours to put the satellite into the proper orbit by the Breeze M upper stage.
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Space station welcomes Russian cargo ship arrival
The International Space Station received a cargo freighter Sunday when the Russian-made vessel loaded with three tons of supplies safely approached and docked on autopilot.
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ESA consults imagery to diagnose Envisat anomaly
Engineers are analyzing satellite and ground imagery of the European Space Agency's Envisat environmental spacecraft to determine if the $3.4 billion mission can resume after controllers lost contact with the platform April 8.
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MESSENGER spacecraft lowers orbit around Mercury
NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft maneuvered itself into an orbit closer to Mercury on Friday, putting the probe in position for more detailed measurements of the planet's surface composition, sharper images of its surface, and precise mapping of its terrain.
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Orbital Sciences aims for August launch of Antares
Construction of the Antares rocket's launch pad in Virginia is substantially complete after months of delays stemming from difficulties with the facility's fueling and pressurization systems, according to the chief executive of Orbital Sciences Corp., the rocket's commercial operator.
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Discovery enters Smithsonian museum
The most-flown spaceship in human history, sailing on 39 voyages to deploy and retrieve satellites, open a new window on the universe by launching the Hubble Space Telescope and help to construct the International Space Station, the shuttle orbiter Discovery reached her final resting place Thursday at the Smithsonian.
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Russians launch space station resupply ship
Dispatching a freighter filled with food, fuel and supplies to the International Space Station, an unmanned Russian Soyuz booster successfully launched Friday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
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Catch a glimpse of the Antares rocket launch site
Components for the first test launch of the Orbital Sciences Antares rocket are coming together inside a hangar at Wallops Island on Virginia's Eastern Shore. Engineers also lifted an Antares first stage on the launch mount for the first time this week, testing connections and electrical systems before a test flight this summer.
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Rocket companies hope to repurpose Saturn 5 engines
Dynetics and Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne announced Wednesday they are teaming up to resurrect the Saturn 5 rocket's mighty F-1 engine to power NASA's planned heavy-lift launch vehicle, saying the Apollo-era engine will offer significantly more performance than solid-fueled boosters currently under development.
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Budget bill provides $525 million for commercial crew
Senate appropriators released a draft NASA budget Tuesday, proposing a cut of more than $300 million from the agency's funding request for commercial space transportation, but adding money for development of the Space Launch System heavy-lift rocket and Orion capsule for human exploration of deep space.
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Spaceport to Smithsonian: Discovery flies away
The space shuttle orbiter Discovery, part of Kennedy Space Center's heart and soul for three decades, departed the Florida spaceport forever Tuesday morning en route to become a museum exhibit at the Smithsonian's annex in Northern Virginia.
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SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket still tracking to April 30 launch
Pending the completion of last-minute work and a final review, a commercial cargo ship making its maiden voyage to the International Space Station should be ready for launch April 30, officials said Monday. The long-awaited test flight is intended to clear the way for routine resupply missions starting later this year.
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Public can get up-close view of shuttle ferryflight takeoff
Talk about access! Space shuttle fans have a unique opportunity to buy front-row seats at Kennedy Space Center's runway to watch Discovery depart the spaceport atop the 747 carrier jet Tuesday morning.
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