10 February 2022
SpaceX Starlink satellites fall out of sky after storm
... increased drag itself.” The satellites were launched into low-Earth orbit (LEO) on 3 February from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida by a Falcon 9 rocket but the majority are now burning up in Earth’s atmosphere instead of reaching their intended...
29 March 2019
NASA's Mars helicopter completes flight tests
...2020 rover on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket in July 2020 from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. It is expected ...based at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, is responsible for launch management.
17 January 2025
Investigation launched after SpaceX Spaceship 7 explodes
... hours of Wednesday morning a Falcon 9 rocket launched a dual-lunar landing mission from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Back at the start of the week, China launched a Jielong-3 solid rocket from a mobile sea platform...
01 April 2020
JAXA and NASA astronauts announced for first operational Crew Dragon flight
..., and Noguchi will launch aboard Crew Dragon on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. That launch is targeted for later this year. Walker was born in Houston and began her...
28 April 2020
Hubble turns 30!
... an undersea world. Thirty years ago, on April 24, 1990, Hubble was carried aloft from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard the space shuttle Discovery, along with a five-astronaut crew. Deployed into Earth orbit a day later, the...
January 2017
Blueprint for NASA’s journey to Mars
... Test-1 was successfully accomplished and EM-1 is in assembly and test at the Kennedy Space Center for launch in 2018, while EM-2 is on track for launch of the first deep space exploration crew, establishing a pathway that leads to Mars Base Camp...
