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

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 expanding the network into Ukraine amid Russia's invasion of the country.

Moon impact: Chinese rocket stage still in space says U.S. Space Command

A spent rocket upper stage from China’s 2014 Chang’e-5 T1 mission thought set to impact the moon did not reenter the atmosphere as previously stated, according to U.S. Space Command.

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Atlas 5 launches GOES-T weather satellite

Atlas 5 GOES-T launch

An Atlas 5 successfully launched the latest in a series of geostationary weather satellites March 1, exactly four years after the launch of the satellite it is replacing.

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

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.

SpaceX deploys another batch of Starlink satellites

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.

SpaceX makes its case for space sustainability with latest Starlink launch

Starlink launch 2022 Feb 25

SpaceX launched another set of Starlink satellites Feb. 25 as the company argues its satellite constellation is consistent with the safe and sustainable use of low Earth orbit.

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More spaceports, more problems

State and local authorities pushing new projects seem undeterred by many obstacles or the fact that more than half of 13 FAA-licensed spaceports in the United States have yet to host a launch.

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Fifty more Starlink satellites ready for launch Friday

SpaceX will launch another 50 Starlink internet satellites Friday from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, continuing what's expected to be a cadence of nearly one Falcon 9 launch per month this year at the West Coast spaceport.

Rocket Lab to debut new launch pad on next mission

Rocket Lab's next mission, targeted for no earlier than Feb. 28, will be the first from a new launch pad at the company's private spaceport in New Zealand, an addition officials said could double the flight rate of Electron launchers. We spoke with Rocket Lab's founder, Peter Beck, about the new launch pad.

Moon-bound rocket stage still most likely from 2014 Chang’e mission, despite China’s denial

The Earth and distant moon imaged by the Chang'e-5 T1 service module. A rocket upper stage that launched the mission is thought to be the object due to impact the moon in March 2022.

A rocket stage expected to impact the moon is still most likely to belong to China’s 2014 moon mission, despite a denial from the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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Landsat 9 declared operational, IXPE returns first science imagery

Two NASA satellites launched late last year are operational and returning imagery -- one looking back at planet Earth and another peering into the cosmos in search of new insights into the remnants of dead stars.

SpaceX launches Starlink satellites to higher orbit

Falcon 9 Starlink

SpaceX launched a set of Starlink satellites Feb. 21 after more than three-fourths of the satellites from the previous launch were lost because of a solar storm.

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