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It’s rolling! NASA’s Artemis 1 moon mission begins journey to the launch pad

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida — Watch it go! NASA’s Artemis 1 moon mission is on its way to the launch pad. NASA’s iconic crawler-transporter 2 (CT-2, or “the crawler”) vehicle is on its way to Pad 39B here at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC), carrying the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket and Orion spacecraft that … Read more

NASA’s Artemis 1 moon megarocket rolls out to the launch pad today and you can watch it live

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida — The first mission in NASA’s Artemis moon program is set to roll out to the launch pad today (March 17).  More than 50 years after NASA landed the first humans on the moon with Apollo 11, the agency is gearing up to launch its next human lunar missions as part of … Read more

Russia removes Soyuz rocket with 36 OneWeb satellites from launch pad (photos)

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The outcome was expected, but the visuals are still dramatic. On Friday (March 4), Russia removed a Soyuz rocket topped with 36 OneWeb internet satellites from its launch pad at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, which is managed jointly by the Russian Aerospace Forces and Roscosmos, Russia’s federal space agency.  The Soyuz was originally supposed to … Read more

Rocket Lab launches Earth-observation satellite in 1st mission from new pad

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Pad B’s debut mission went off without a hitch. Rocket Lab lofted a private Earth-observation satellite today (Feb. 28) from the newly finished second pad at its Launch Complex 1, on New Zealand’s North Island.  An Electron rocket topped with Strix-β, which will be operated by the Japanese company Synspective, lifted off from Pad B … Read more

Atlas V rocket rolling to launch pad with GOES-T weather satellite for NASA, NOAA (replay)

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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying an advanced new weather satellite for the United States is rolling out to its launch pad today and you can watch a video replay from its morning trip.  The Atlas V rocket is carrying the GOES-T weather satellite for NASA and NOAA to its pad at Space … Read more

30 years and $10 billion later, the James Webb Space Telescope is finally on the launch pad

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NASA and the astronomy community have poured $10 billion and more than two decades into just one piece of machinery. Now they are facing the moment of truth. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, also known as Webb or JWST, is finally in French Guiana, perched atop its rocket, ready to bid farewell to Earth and … Read more

James Webb Space Telescope reaches launch pad for Christmas liftoff

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Image 1 of 3 An Ariane 5 rocket carrying the James Webb Space Telescope rolled out to the launch pad at Kourou, French Guiana, on Dec. 23, 2021. (Image credit: Bill Ingalls/NASA) Image 2 of 3 An Ariane 5 rocket carrying the James Webb Space Telescope rolled out to the launch pad at Kourou, French … Read more