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Amazon books up to 83 launches with ULA, Arianespace, and Blue Origin

Artist’s illustrations of Blue Origin’s New Glenn, ULA’s Vulcan Centaur, and the European Ariane 6 rocket. Credit: Blue Origin / United Launch Alliance / ESA / Spaceflight Now

Amazon announced the largest commercial launch deal in history Tuesday, revealing agreements for up to 83 missions to deploy thousands of internet satellites on United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur rocket, Arianespace’s Ariane 6, and Blue Origin’s New Glenn vehicle.

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Launch of Axiom’s commercial space station mission delayed until Friday

Ax-1 pilot Larry Connor, commander Mike Lopez-Alegria, Mark Pathy, and Eytan Stibbe during a test with SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Endeavour spacecraft at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. Credit: SpaceX

The launch of the first all-private crew to the International Space Station has been delayed to Friday, officials announced late Monday. The four commercial space fliers will ride to the station on a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft.

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Artemis 1 wet dress rehearsal timeline

The timeline below covers major countdown activities planned during the NASA’s wet dress rehearsal for the Artemis 1 mission. The wet dress rehearsal will include loading of more than 700,000 gallons of cryogenic liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen into the Space Launch System moon rocket on launch pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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Ground system problem halts Artemis 1 countdown dress rehearsal

NASA’s Space Launch System moon rocket stands on pad 39B Sunday, moments after NASA scrubbed a planned cryogenic fueling test. Credit: Stephen Clark / Spaceflight Now

NASA launch controllers called off plans to load super-cold liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen into the first fully-assembled Space Launch System moon rocket Sunday, giving time for ground teams to troubleshoot problems with fans used to ventilate the giant rocket’s mobile launch structure at the Kennedy Space Center.

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Live coverage: NASA to load super-cold propellants into SLS moon rocket today

Live coverage of the wet dress rehearsal for the Space Launch System on NASA’s Artemis 1 mission. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.

Live View of Pad 39B

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Commercial BlackSky imaging satellites ride with Rocket Lab

Rocket Lab’s Electron launcher streaks into the night sky over New Zealand with two BlackSky imaging satellites. Credit: Rocket Lab / Joseph Baxter

Two microsatellites for BlackSky launched Saturday from New Zealand, riding a Rocket Lab launch vehicle into orbit to join a fleet of commercial eyes supplying imagery to military and civilian users.

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Live coverage: Rocket Lab counting down to launch for BlackSky

Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Rocket Lab Electron rocket from Launch Complex 1A on Mahia Peninsula in New Zealand carrying two small BlackSky Earth observation satellites. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter.

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Rocket Lab to deploy two more BlackSky imaging satellites

Rocket Lab’s Electron launch vehicle during a countdown rehearsal earlier this week. Credit: Rocket Lab

Rocket Lab will launch a mission from New Zealand on Saturday to place two more small optical imaging satellites into orbit for BlackSky, the U.S. remote sensing company.

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NASA begins critical Artemis countdown rehearsal at Kennedy Space Center

NASA’s Space Launch System on launch pad 39B. Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett

NASA commenced a two-day countdown dress rehearsal for the agency’s huge Space Launch System moon rocket Friday, with clocks ticking down to a critical milestone Sunday, when the heavy-lifter will be fueled and pressurized on the launch pad for the first time.

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Forty payloads ride into orbit on SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket climbs into clouds over Cape Canaveral to begin the Transporter 4 mission. Credit: SpaceX

SpaceX launched a German environmental mapping satellite and 39 co-passenger spacecraft Friday, dodging thunderstorms near Cape Canaveral that threatened to keep the Falcon 9 rocket on the ground.

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Live coverage: SpaceX rideshare mission set for launch Friday, weather permitting

Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. The Transporter 4 mission will launch 40 small payloads from customers around the world. Follow us on Twitter.

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German imaging satellite gets top billing on next SpaceX rideshare launch

The EnMAP spacecraft at its factory in Bremen, Germany. Credit: OHB/H. von der Fecht

A $330 million German hyperspectral Earth-imaging satellite will hitch a ride to orbit from Cape Canaveral with 39 smaller commercial payloads on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket set for blastoff Friday.

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Watch live: Blue Origin ready for fourth suborbital crew flight today



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NASA astronaut back on Earth after record-setting flight

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Live coverage: NASA astronaut returning home today with two Russian cosmonauts

Live coverage of the Expedition 66 mission on the International Space Station. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.

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NASA astronaut, two cosmonauts set for Wednesday return to Earth

NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei in his Russian Sokol launch and entry spacesuit. Credit: NASA

NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei, launched by Russia to the International Space Station aboard a Soyuz spacecraft last April, returns this week to a world torn by war in Ukraine and escalating superpower tension as he closes out a 355-day stay in orbit, the longest single flight by a U.S. astronaut.

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White House requests $26 billion for NASA in ’23, adds funds for second moon lander

The waning gibbous moon as viewed from the International Space Station on Jan. 21. Credit: NASA

The White House’s fiscal year 2023 budget request for NASA totals $26 billion, including $7.5 billion for the agency’s Artemis moon program, a boost over this year’s budget to help pay for development of a second human-rated lander to ferry astronauts to the lunar surface.

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SpaceX’s new Dragon spaceship named ‘Freedom’

NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins, pilot Bob Hines, commander Kjell Lindgren, and European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti pose with SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Freedom spacecraft. Credit: SpaceX

SpaceX’s fourth human-rated Crew Dragon spacecraft has been named “Freedom” by the first team of astronauts who will ride it into orbit next month.

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NASA gives priority to Artemis ground test over commercial astronaut launch

Pilot Larry Connor and commander Mike Lopez-Alegria (left and right) during training inside a SpaceX simulator. Credit: Axiom Space / SpaceX

NASA officials gave the green light Friday for the first all-commercial astronaut launch to the International Space Station on a SpaceX rocket as soon as April 3. But the astronaut launch could be delayed a day, or longer, to give priority to a countdown test for NASA’s Space Launch System moon rocket on a neighboring launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center.

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Hydrazine fueling operations underway for SLS booster steering system

Live views of launch pad 39B and updates on preparations for the inaugural launch of NASA’s Space Launch System Moon rocket on the Artemis 1 test flight.

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Russian military communications satellite launched on Soyuz rocket

A Soyuz rocket lifts off Tuesday with a Russian military satellite. Credit: Russian Ministry of Defense

A Russian Soyuz rocket delivered a military communications satellite to orbit Tuesday in the first space launch for Russia’s military since forces invaded Ukraine last month.

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