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• Gallery: See NASA’s fully-stacked SLS solid rocket boosters

  Theresa CrossMarch 24th, 2021

  NASA reported in early March 2021 the stacking is complete for the Space Launch System twin solid rocket boosters for the Artemis 1 mission.

• Gallery: Preparations for Starship SN9 test flight continue

  Nicholas D'AlessandroJanuary 25th, 2021

  Preflight testing for Starship SN9 appears to be complete ahead of the follow-up to last-month's unprecedented SN8 high-altitude flight.

• Gallery: SpaceX’s Dragon clears safety check paving way for crewed missions

  Michael McCabeJanuary 19th, 2020

  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Images from the Jan. 19 test of SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft which successfully demonstrated the vehicle's ability to pull astronauts away from the rocket in the event of an accident on its way to orbit.

• Gallery: ULA launches OFT-1 Starliner

  SpaceFlight InsiderDecember 20th, 2019

  While Boeing's Starliner spacecraft might not have made a very good first showing under its first Commercial Crew Program (CCP) flight - United Launch Alliance's Atlas V N422 was a complete success.

• GALLERY: SpaceX launches JCSAT-18 and Kacific-1

  SpaceFlight InsiderDecember 17th, 2019

  Launching right on time, SpaceX used one of its Falcon 9 rockets to send the JCSAT-18/Kacific-1 satellite to orbit on Monday, Dec. 16, 2019 at 7:10 p.m. EST (00:10 UTC on Tuesday). SpaceX sent the Boeing-built satellite on its way to a geostationary transfer orbit. All photos courtesy of SpaceX.

• GALLERY: Alan Bean makes art – one more time

  Jason RhianNovember 2nd, 2019

  WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. -- Northrop Grumman's Antares rocket successfully launched the "Alan Bean" Cygnus spacecraft at 9:59 a.m. EST (13:59 GMT) on Saturday, Nov. 2, 2019. The NG-12 Cygnus spacecraft and the 8,200 pounds (3,719 kg) worth of crew supplies, cargo, experiments and hardware was launched from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport's Pad-0A in Virginia.

• Gallery: Flight of GPS III marks final flight of Delta IV Medium

  Jason RhianAugust 22nd, 2019

  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — United Launch Alliance carried out the last flight of a Delta IV Medium rocket with the GPS III satellite on Aug. 22, 2019, from Space Launch Complex 37B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

• Gallery: ULA completes third flight of 2019

  Jason RhianAugust 8th, 2019

  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — ULA launched an Atlas V rocket with the AEHF-5 on Thursday, Aug. 8 2019. The early morning flight marked an increasingly rare appearance for the venerable launch vehicle.

• Gallery: SpaceX completes second flight in less than two weeks with AMOS-17

  Jason RhianAugust 6th, 2019

  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket with the AMOS-17 spacecraft on Tuesday Aug. 6, 2019. The flight helped reiterate the company's ability to rapidly turn around and prepare for the next flight.

• Gallery: CRS-18 another check in the ‘Win Box’ for SpaceX

  Derek RichardsonJuly 25th, 2019

  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket with the CRS-18 Dragon on the capsule's third flight to the International Space Station on Thursday, July 25. In many ways it marked a repeat performance for the NewSpace company.

• Gallery: Ascent Abort 2 paves way for Artemis lunar program

  Jason RhianJuly 2nd, 2019

  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- During a test that lasted about three-minutes, called Ascent Abort-2, a test article of the Orion spacecraft was launched at 7 a.m. EDT (11:00 GMT) from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 46 in Florida. A modified Northrop Grumman Peacekeeper missile procured through the U.S. Air Force was used to help demonstrate that the capsule's crew abort system wo...

• Gallery: Falcon Heavy pushes back the night on STP-2 flight

  Jason RhianJune 26th, 2019

  KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- Although STP-2 didn't launch right on time, before the close of Monday's launch window - the job got done. History was seared into every inch of Florida's skies after the Falcon Heavy rocket left the pad at 2:30 a.m. EDT (06:30 GMT) on Tuesday, June 25.

• Gallery: Northop Grumman tests OmegA first stage

  Derek RichardsonMay 31st, 2019

  PROMONTORY, Utah — In the Blue Spring Hills north of Salt Lake City, Northrop Grumman test fired the first stage of its OmegA rocket.

• Gallery: SpaceX begins launching its Starlink constellation

  Derek RichardsonMay 24th, 2019

  In the black of night, SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 60 Starlink spacecraft to begin its satellite internet mega constellation.

• Gallery: CRS-17 launch brightens Space Coast skies

  Derek RichardsonMay 4th, 2019

  SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket with the CRS-17 Dragon spacecraft perched atop it in the company’s fifth flight of 2019.

• Gallery: S.S. Roger Chaffee lifts off on flight to ISS

  Jason RhianApril 17th, 2019

  Taking to the skies at the very opening of a five-minute long launch window, Northrop Grumman Corporation's S.S. Roger Chaffee Cygnus cargo freighter leaped into the skies from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport's Pad-0A. The mission got underway at 4:46 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, April 17, 2019.

• Gallery: Stratolaunch arcs across Golden skies

  Jason RhianApril 14th, 2019

  When Howard Hughes took his wooden "Spruce Goose" into the skies it was the first and only time the vehicle lifted off the ground (or ocean as it were). Saturday's flight of the massive Stratolaunch aircraft will likely not encounter the same fate.

• Gallery: Falcon Heavy with Arabsat-6A – Hard as thunder, light as rain

  Jason RhianApril 11th, 2019

  KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — One, two, three. Each of these numbers denoted major milestone achieved by SpaceX with the flight of the Arabsat-6A mission on one of the company's Falcon Heavy rockets.

• Gallery: 2 shuttle astronauts added to Hall of Fame

  Derek RichardsonApril 7th, 2019

  Two veteran Space Shuttle astronauts were added to the United States Astronaut Hall of Fame, joining the nearly 100 already inducted.

• GALLERY: Delta IV lights up night sky to send WGS-10 into space

  Derek RichardsonMarch 16th, 2019

  In one of its last flights, a Delta IV Medium rocket turned night into day as it raced toward orbit to send a military communications satellite into space.