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SpaceX rocket launches Starlink fleet and 2 small satellites, sticks landing at sea

The veteran Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center here in Florida at 6:56 p.m. EDT (2056 GMT), marking the company's 15th launch of the year. It also marked the eighth flight for this particular Falcon 9.

SpaceX will launch 52 Starlink satellites and two small payloads tonight. Watch it live!

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX will launch its third Falcon 9 rocket in two weeks Saturday evening (May 15), with the launcher carrying a new fleet of Starlink broadband satellites into space, and you can watch the action live online. The private ...

SpaceX ramps up launch rate fifth Falcon 9 mission in three weeks

The kerosene-fueled launcher ignited its nine Merlin main engines and hold-down clamps released the rocket to climb away from pad 39A at 6:56 p.m. EDT (2256 GMT) Saturday. The Merlin ...

Rocket Lab ready for second booster recovery attempt

The scheduled launch Saturday of two commercial BlackSky Earth-imaging satellites from New Zealand will double as an opportunity for Rocket Lab to test an enhanced heat shield on its Electron booster, an upgrade that should allow the company to recover ...

Two BlackSky satellites lost on Rocket Lab launch failure

A malfunction just after ignition of the upper stage of a Rocket Lab Electron launcher Saturday destroyed two commercial BlackSky optical Earth-imaging satellites, the launch company's second failed mission in less than a year. Rocket ...

Two hitchhiker smallsats to accompany SpaceX's next Starlink mission into orbit

SpaceX will attempt to fly its fifth Falcon 9 rocket in 22 days Saturday, following the launch of a Crew Dragon mission April 23 that carried four astronauts to the International Space Station, and three more launches — each with 60 Starlink satellites — from ...

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Volcanoes could still be active on Mars

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(CNN) The barren landscape of Mars makes the planet seem like a quiet, frozen desert where nothing has happened for billions of years except for the occasional dust storm. New research, however, suggests that the red planet has a more recent history of ...

Rocket Lab Electron booster launch fails to reach orbit, 2 satellites lost

The launch failure occurred less than three minutes after a launch from Rocket Lab's Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand's Mahia Peninsula, and just after the Electron's two stages separated. Two Earth-observing satellites for the company BlackSky, their flight ...

China Lands On Mars In Major Advance For Its Apace Ambitions

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China landed a spacecraft on Mars for the first time on Saturday, a technically challenging feat more difficult than a moon landing, in the latest step forward for its ambitious goals in space. Plans call for a rover to stay in the lander for a few days of diagnostic ...

Photos: Falcon 9 stands ready for weekend launch

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stood atop historic launch pad 39A Saturday afternoon as teams counted down to liftoff with 52 more Starlink internet satellites and two hitchhiker payloads. Weather permitting, the 229-foot-tall ...