June 22, 2016
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The 145-foot-tall (44-meter) PSLV XL vehicle rolls out to the Second Launch Pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Center for Wednesday's launch. Credit: ISRO
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India’s PSLV counting down to launch with 20 satellites

June 22, 2016

A Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle is set for liftoff early Wednesday with an assortment of payloads for the Indian government, domestic universities, and institutions and companies from Indonesia, Canada, Germany and the United States, including a pathfinder satellite for Google’s Terra Bella Earth observation division. The launch is set for 0355 GMT Wednesday (11:55 p.m. EDT Tuesday).

News Headlines

  • An artist's concept of MUOS 5 in orbit. Credit: Navy

    Atlas 5 launching MUOS 5 for mobile forces across all branches of U.S. military

    June 21, 2016

    For the fifth time in four years, a massive U.S. Navy satellite will launch atop an Atlas 5 rocket on Friday to finish the military’s new $7.7 billion mobile communications framework 22,300 miles in space.

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    Atlas/MUOS 5 launch timeline

    June 21, 2016

    This is the ascent timeline to be followed by the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket in launching the Mobile User Objective System satellite No. 5 on Friday at 10:30 a.m. EDT (1430 GMT).

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    Imagery of the Ariane 5’s blazing blastoff at sunset in the jungle

    June 20, 2016

    The Ariane 5 rocket’s weekend launch from French Guiana set a weight record and produced stunning imagery as the powerful 180-foot-tall booster soared into space backdropped by the colorful orange hues of sunset on the edge of the Amazon jungle.

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    Photos: Soyuz crew capsule parachutes to landing in Kazakhstan

    June 20, 2016

    A Soyuz spacecraft carrying a three-man crew parachuted to the flat grasslands of Kazakhstan on Saturday, returning home from the International Space Station with cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, NASA astronaut Tim Kopra and British flight engineer Tim Peake.

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    Weather forecast looks good for Friday’s Atlas 5 rocket launch

    June 20, 2016

    Air Force meteorologists are giving good odds of acceptable weather conditions for the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket to fly Friday morning from Cape Canaveral to put a Navy mobile communications satellite into orbit.

  • An Ariane 5 rocket took off at 2138 GMT (5:38 p.m. EDT; 6:38 p.m. French Guiana time) Saturday from the Guiana Space Center. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – P. Piron

    Ariane 5 rocket hoists record commercial payload into orbit

    June 19, 2016

    Two U.S.-built communications satellites for Dish Network television subscribers and Indonesian banking customers fired into orbit from French Guiana aboard an Ariane 5 rocket Saturday, setting the record for the European launcher’s heaviest commercial payload.

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    Blue Origin flies reusable suborbital rocket for fourth time

    June 19, 2016

    Blue Origin’s suborbital space transport system made another test flight Sunday, launching and landing at the company’s West Texas test facility to prove out the crew capsule’s resiliency to a parachute failure.

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    Soyuz spacecraft brings home three-man station crew

    June 18, 2016

    A Russian cosmonaut, a NASA astronaut and a British flier strapped into a Soyuz spacecraft, undocked from International Space Station and plunged back to Earth Saturday, safely landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan to close out a 186-day mission.

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    Photos: Ariane 5 on the launch pad for heavy-lift mission

    June 17, 2016

    An Ariane 5 rocket is counting down to a second launch attempt Saturday to carry two communications satellites into space for DISH Network and Indonesian banking customers, taking the heaviest payload ever launched into geostationary transfer orbit.

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    Live coverage: Space station crew concludes 186 days in orbit

    June 17, 2016

    Veteran Soyuz commander Yuri Malenchenko, outgoing space station skipper Tim Kopra and British astronaut Tim Peake departed the International Space Station early Saturday aboard the Soyuz TMA-19M capsule and landed in Kazakhstan at 0915 GMT (5:15 a.m. EDT).

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