Tag: Rocket launch
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Blue Origin Rockets Toward Mars with Twin NASA Craft
Blue Origin’s New Glenn Lifts Off with Twin NASA Craft The launch of Blue Origin’s towering New Glenn rocket marked a milestone for both the commercial space sector and NASA’s ambitious Mars strategy. The mission carried a pair of NASA spacecraft designed to support future robotic prefaces to human exploration on the Red Planet. It…
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Blue Origin Rocket Successfully Lands Booster During Launch
Blue Origin Achieves Successful Booster Landing During Launch A Blue Origin rocket completed a successful mission yesterday, with its booster touching down smoothly after lift-off. The event underscores Blue Origin’s ongoing commitment to reusable rocket technology and marks another milestone for commercial spaceflight. While the mission details vary by flight, the core achievement remains the…
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Blue Origin Rocket Shines as Booster Lands After Launch
Blue Origin Makes a Skyscraper-Like Recovery: Booster Lands After Launch In a showcase of modern spaceflight engineering, Blue Origin demonstrated the reliability of its reusable rocket technology as a booster touched down safely after a recent launch. The successful landing marks another milestone in the company’s ongoing pursuit of cost-effective, repeatable access to space, a…
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Blue Origin Launches New Glenn with NASA Mars-bound Payloads in Historic Flight
Blue Origin’s New Glenn Lifts Off with Mars-bound NASA Missions A towering soundscape filled the skies over Cape Canaveral as Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket thundered skyward, setting the stage for a historic journey to Mars. The launch carried a pair of NASA spacecraft designed for deep-space exploration, underscoring a growing collaboration between the commercial…
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Atlas V Launch: ViaSat-3 F2 Satellite Lifts Off Today
Overview: A Key Atlas V Mission to Boost Global Communications The United Launch Alliance (ULA) is set to showcase the enduring reliability of the Atlas V rocket as it prepares to launch the ViaSat-3 F2 satellite. Weighing roughly 13,000 pounds (about 5,900 kilograms), the big and powerful spacecraft is designed to expand high-speed, secure connectivity…
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Atlas V Launches ViaSat-3 F2: Live Coverage of a Major Communications Satellite Deployment
Overview: A High-Powered Satellite Set for Orbit The United Launch Alliance (ULA) is scheduled to launch the Atlas V rocket today, carrying the massive ViaSat-3 F2 communications satellite. Weighing roughly 13,000 pounds (about 5,900 kilograms), ViaSat-3 F2 is designed to expand high-speed internet coverage and capacity across a broad swath of the globe, linking remote…
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SpaceX Launches 28 Starlink Satellites from California, Falcon 9 Lands at Sea
Overview: A Routine but Record-Breaking SpaceX Launch SpaceX added another milestone to its rapid launch cadence on Oct. 27, sending 28 new Starlink broadband satellites into low Earth orbit from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 8:43 p.m. EDT (5:43 p.m. local) and marked yet another chapter in…
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SpaceX Debuts 11th Starship Test Flight, Marking Another Crucial Step Toward Moon and Mars
SpaceX Wraps Up 11th Starship Test Flight with Notable Milestones SpaceX completed the 11th full-scale test flight of the Starship rocket, a development seen by enthusiasts as a key indicator of the vehicle’s readiness for ambitious deep-space missions. The mission, which launched from the Starbase facility near Texas’s southern tip, echoed the path of previous…
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SpaceX tests Starship’s reusable design with eleventh orbital attempt
SpaceX conducts eleventh Starship test flight to validate reusable design SpaceX launched its eleventh Starship rocket from Starbase, Texas, on a mission designed to stress-test the vehicle’s reusable capabilities. The flight, which took off around 7:20 p.m. ET, aimed to demonstrate how the giant spacecraft — consisting of the Starship upper stage perched on a…
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SpaceX Pushes Starship to 11th Test Flight as It Aims for Global Reach
SpaceX Launches 11th Starship Test Flight from Texas SpaceX launched its colossal Starship rocket for the 11th time, continuing a high-stakes program designed to validate a vehicle the company hopes will take humans to Mars and enable rapid point-to-point space travel. The launch, from SpaceX’s facility at the southern tip of Texas, kicked off an…