Tag: Launch
-
Launch companies, range teams reassessing Cape Canaveral weather rules
EDITOR’S NOTE: SpaceX successfully launched the Falcon 9 mission mentioned in this story at 3:24 a.m. EST (0824 GMT) on Thursday, March 4. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands on pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center before launching in May 2020 with the Crew Dragon Demo-2 mission. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls Launch companies and U.S. Space…
-
Indian rocket launches Brazilian satellite to track Amazon deforestation
A Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle lifts off from the Satish Dhawan Space Center with the Amazonia 1 satellite and 18 secondary payloads. Credit: ISRO An Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle placed Brazil’s Amazonia 1 satellite into orbit Sunday to begin a mission monitoring deforestation in the Amazon rainforest, then released 18 smaller spacecraft at a…
-
Live coverage: SpaceX delays Falcon 9 launch to Thursday morning
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission will launch SpaceX’s 20th batch of approximately 60 Starlink broadband satellites. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. [tabby title=”SpaceX webcast”] [tabbyending]
-
Russia launches Arctic weather satellite
Russia launched a Soyuz rocket Sunday through a veil of fog over the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, carrying the first spacecraft in a new program to monitor Arctic weather systems and relay emergency communications. The Soyuz-2.1b rocket lifted off from the Site 31 launch pad at Baikonur at 1:55:01 a.m. EST (0655:01 GMT; 11:55:01 a.m.…
-
Live coverage: Soyuz rocket launches with polar weather satellite
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Russian Soyuz rocket with the Arktika-M 1 weather satellite designed to provide coverage of Russia’s Arctic region. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. Roscosmos’s live video stream begins at approximately 0610 GMT (1:10 a.m. EST) and will be available on this page.
-
Russian satellite for polar weather forecasting ready for launch Sunday
A Soyuz-2.1b rocket stands on the launch pad at Site 31 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Credit: Roscosmos The first in a new constellation of Russian Arctic weather satellites is poised for launch on top of a Soyuz rocket Sunday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Russia’s Arktika-M 1 spacecraft is inside the nose…
-
Live coverage: Indian PSLV lifts off with 19 satellites
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle with Brazil’s Amazonia 1 Earth observation satellite and 18 smaller co-passenger payloads. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. [tabby title=”Launch Webcast”] [tabby title=”Webcast of Secondary Payload Deployment”] [tabbyending] ISRO’s live video stream begins at approximately 0430 GMT (11:30 p.m.…
-
Another trio of Chinese military satellites successfully deployed
A Long March 4C rocket takes off Feb. 24 with another trio of Yaogan 31 military satellites. Credit: Xinhua Weeks after the launch of an earlier trio of Chinese military satellites, another spacecraft triplet successfully took off Feb. 24 aboard a Long March 4C rocket on a clandestine mission that analysts believe may involve spying…
-
Indian rocket set for liftoff with Brazilian satellite
Brazil’s Amazonia 1 satellite and 18 co-passengers will rocket into orbit on an Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle fitted with two strap-on solid rocket boosters. Credit: ISRO A Brazilian satellite designed to track deforestation in the Amazon rainforest will rocket into orbit on top of an Indian launcher late Saturday (U.S. time). A Polar Satellite…
-
Next SpaceX launch postponed
File photo of a Falcon 9 rocket on pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: Spaceflight Now SpaceX has postponed its next launch of Starlink internet satellites from Wednesday after a Falcon 9 booster missed a landing attempt on an offshore drone ship during an otherwise successful mission Monday night. The company…