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Japan prepares new ISS cargo vehicle as trio of cargo spacecraft deliver new experiments and hardware
The International Space Station (ISS) recently welcomed three spacecraft that delivered much-needed cargo to support…
Crew Dragon C210 Endurance and the Crew-10 astronauts have safely returned to Earth following over…
NASA and SpaceX have launched the 11th operational crew rotation mission to the International Space…
NASA has updated the launch date for the next crew launch to the International Space…
The final flight of Japan’s H-IIA rocket took place on Saturday, carrying the GOSAT-GW environmental…
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Launch Roundup: Launch manifest remains busy as 2025’s halfway point approaches
With summer and winter for the Northern and Southern Hemispheres now in full swing, the…
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Launch Roundup: Missions launched from the U.S., China, and Russia
On the heels of a busy launch week, this week saw a number of launches…
Just over two years after the Japanese company ispace attempted but failed to land its…
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Crew handovers and cargo ship movements highlight recent ISS activity
The International Space Station is now in the waning days of Expedition 72 and is…
NASA and SpaceX successfully launched the next ISS crew-rotation mission, Crew-10. The 10th operational crewed…
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Launch Roundup: New Shepard to simulate lunar gravity, India and Japan launch navigation satellites
This week’s schedule has a mix of orbital and suborbital missions launching from seven different…
SpaceX launched not one but two lunar landers to the Moon on the same mission,…
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Launch Roundup: New Glenn and Starship headline a week dominated by SpaceX missions
SpaceX dominated this week’s launch manifest with two Falcon 9 missions and the seventh flight…
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Starlink launch concludes record-breaking 2024
With SpaceX’s successful launch of the Starlink Group 12-6 mission on Tuesday, the curtain came…
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Space science in 2024: Moon missions, Martian milestones, astrophysics discoveries, and more
2024 was another busy year for space science, with many new missions, successes, and discoveries…
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International Space Station finishes challenging year as plans are made for its retirement
The International Space Station continues to act as humanity’s outpost in low-Earth orbit, a role…
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Launch Roundup: SpaceX plans for five customer missions; Rocket Lab launch mission for Synspective
The orbital launch manifest for the week of Dec. 16 through Dec. 22 has been…
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Launch Roundup: Kairos stands down second launch attempt, Falcon 9 to launch 03, GPS and NRO missions
This week, Japanese commercial company Space One stood down two attempts to launch its Kairos…
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Launch Roundup: SpaceX launches 400th orbital flight; Blue Origin, China launch missions
Blue Origin tested its second human-rated New Shepard capsule this week, which had been delayed…
Launch Roundup: Ariane 6 flies, Atlas V and New Glenn both scrub during busy week
This week’s launch manifest featured twelve missions launching on nine different rockets, including the first attempt of the second launch of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket. This Roundup covers an eight-day period, from Monday, Nov.3, to Monday, Nov. 10.
In addition to four Falcon 9 missions from SpaceX, an Ariane 62, New Glenn, Chang Zheng 7A, Chang Zheng 12, Ceres 1, Chang Zheng 11, Kinetica-1, and Electron were all scheduled to launch, with flights from China, French Guiana, New Zealand, and several launch sites in the United States.
An Atlas V was also expected to launch, but was scrubbed on two occasions due to hardware issues.
