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Live coverage: SpaceX ready for another Starlink mission

Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The Starlink 4-10 mission will launch SpaceX’s next batch of 48 Starlink broadband satellites. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter.

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SpaceX to continue Starlink network deployment with another Falcon 9 launch

A Falcon 9 rocket stands on pad 40 at Cape Canaveral, ready for launch March 9 with 48 more Starlink internet satellites. Credit: William Harwood / CBS News

The 40th dedicated launch for SpaceX’s Starlink internet network is set to blast off from Cape Canaveral on Wednesday, adding 48 more broadband relay nodes to the ever-growing, privately-owned satellite constellation.

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Iran’s military successfully launches satellite

Iran state television broadcast a video of the launch of the Noor 2 satellite. Credit: IRIB

U.S. military tracking radars confirmed claims from Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps Tuesday that the Iranian military placed a small satellite into orbit.

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Long March rocket deploys six Chinese internet satellites

A Long March 2C rocket lifts off with seven satellites on March 5. Credit: Galaxy Space

Six demonstration satellites for a future Chinese broadband internet mega-constellation launched March 5 on a Long March 2C rocket.

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China launches new variant of Long March 8 rocket

A Long March 8 rocket lifts off from the Wenchang space center on Feb. 27. Credit: CASC

Two recent launches from China set a new record for the largest number of satellites ever deployed by a Chinese rocket, and added a new radar imaging capability to the country’s remote sensing fleet.

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War of words between Russian space chief and retired astronaut

NASA astronaut Scott Kelly aboard the International Space Station in 2015. Credit: NASA

Retired NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, who spent a U.S.-record 340 days aboard the International Space Station, has taken to Twitter to pass along “real” news to his 5 million followers, many of them in Russia, about the ongoing invasion of Ukraine.

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4K Video: Atlas 5 launches GOES-T weather satellite

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4K Video: A Falcon 9 blows multicolored smoke rings during Starlink launch

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After another Starlink mission, SpaceX on pace for one launch per week this year

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket exceeds the speed of sound Thursday, about minute after liftoff from Kennedy Space Center with 47 Starlink internet satellites. Credit: Stephen Clark / Spaceflight Now

Another batch of 47 internet satellites launched Thursday on a Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center, heading into the sky to join SpaceX’s Starlink broadband network on the company’s ninth mission in nine weeks, keeping pace with a goal of around 50 Falcon flights this year.

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Live coverage: SpaceX ready for another launch Thursday morning

A package of 47 more Starlink internet satellites is set for launch Thursday from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. SpaceX is scheduled to launch the satellites aboard a Falcon 9 rocket at 9:35 a.m. EST (1435 GMT).

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SpaceX preps for another Starlink launch as internet terminals arrive in Ukraine

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 country.

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Russia issues ultimatum to UK government over OneWeb launch

The Soyuz rocket’s payload fairing containing OneWeb’s next 36 satellites. Credit: Roscosmos

Russia’s space agency said Wednesday it will not launch a batch of 36 OneWeb satellites this week unless the UK government gives up its stake in the satellite internet company, a prospect the UK business secretary later confirmed won’t happen.

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Atlas 5 rocket aces another on-target launch with NOAA weather satellite

Four solid rocket boosters and an RD-180 main engine power ULA’s Atlas 5 rocket off the pad Tuesday with NOAA’s GOES-T weather satellite. Credit: Alex Polimeni / Spaceflight Now

A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral and delivered the GOES-T weather satellite into orbit Tuesday, adding a new spacecraft to NOAA’s fleet destined to become the primary observatory tracking storms over the Pacific Ocean and the Western United States.

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Rocket Lab debuts new launch pad, deploys Japanese radar satellite

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.

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Live coverage: Atlas 5 counting down to launch with weather satellite

Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket from pad 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The mission will launch the GOES-T weather satellite toward geostationary orbit for NOAA and NASA. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter.

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NOAA weather satellite ready for launch after repairs to main camera

Artist’s concept of the GOES-T satellite in orbit. Credit: Lockheed Martin

A new NOAA weather satellite destined to track cyclones, wildfires, and solar flares from a perch high above the Western United States and Pacific Ocean is set for liftoff Tuesday from Cape Canaveral on a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket.

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NASA official says U.S.-Russian partnership continues on space station

An astronaut on a departing Crew Dragon spacecraft captured this image of the International Space Station in November. The U.S. segment is situated in the upper left of this view, and the Russian segment is on the lower right. Credit: NASA

Kathy Lueders, head of NASA’s human spaceflight operations division, said Monday that joint activities on the International Space Station are continuing amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, including preparations for the return of NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei to Earth on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft March 30.

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Live coverage: Rocket Lab to launch from new pad in New Zealand today

Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Rocket Lab Electron rocket from Launch Complex 1B on Mahia Peninsula in New Zealand carrying the StriX β synthetic aperture radar satellite for Synspective, a Japanese Earth-imaging company. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter.

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Watch live: Atlas 5 rocket rolling to launch pad with weather satellite



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SpaceX deploys another batch of Starlink satellites

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 are scheduled from Florida in the first half of March.

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

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