02 July 2019
Orion spacecraft's launch abort test completed successfully
... Ascent Abort-2, a test version of the Orion crew module launched at 7 a.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex 46 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on a modified Peacekeeper missile procured through the U.S. Air Force and built by Northrop...
01 October 2019
The Moon: A History for the Future
...find that, in 2016, he admitted to a friend that he’d never seen a rocket launch; he subsequently viewed a Falcon 9 launch from Cape Canaveral that made him “feel different about such undertakings”. However, he could hardly be said to have ‘drunk the...
23 December 2019
Starliner lands successfully despite problems during inaugural flight
....” The uncrewed Starliner spacecraft launched on the ULA Atlas V rocket at 6:36 a.m. Friday, Dec. 20, from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
23 July 2020
China's Tianwen-1 Mars mission launches successfully
... again, when next week the agency launches its Perseverance rover from the Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Along with Perseverance and Tianwen-1, the UAE's Hope mission makes up the...
25 January 2021
SpaceX rocket deploys record number of payloads in one flight
... carrying a record number of satellites on board, the private space company said. The rocket successfully launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida at 10:00 am (1500 GMT), 24 hours after its initial take-off had been scrubbed due to bad weather...
