International Launch Services (ILS) have launched their Proton M launch vehicle from Pad 39 (Area 200) at Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, carrying the Nimiq 4 satellite for Canada. Lift-off was recorded at 5:48 pm EDT.
NASASpaceflight.com is covering the launch as a live event, with background, live updates, images and a free launch video all [...]

International Launch Services (ILS) have returned their Proton M back into service for the multi-national company, with the launch of the Inmarsat-4 F3 satellite from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
NASASpaceflight.com covered the launch as a live event, with background, live updates, and a free launch video - all available on the links below (read [...]

Sea Launch have returned to action tonight with the launch of the EchoStar 11 telecommunications satellite via their Zenit-3SL launch vehicle from their Odyssey Launch Platform. The launch was on time at 10:21pm PDT.
Meanwhile, one of the EchoStar’s older birds failed earlier this week, with an official announcement confirming the loss of EchoStar [...]

A United Launch Alliance Delta II (7320-10) launch vehicle has launched with Jason-2 - a European/American Ocean Surface Topography satellite - from SLC-2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB), California. Liftoff was confirmed at the opening of the window at 00:46 PDT.
NASASpaceflight.com covered the launch as a live event, with background, images, live [...]

A United Launch Alliance Delta II Heavy launch vehicle has lifted-off with NASA’s next major space observatory, the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST). The launch from Cape Canaveral’s SLC 17-B was slightly delayed to 12:05pm EDT.
NASASpaceflight.com covered the launch as a live event, with background, up to the second live updates, images, [...]

Following its opening journey on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta II launch vehicle, NASA’s Phoenix mission bridged the gap between Earth and Mars and - from all current indications - landed successfully. Controllers at JPL are now awaiting the first images from the newest spacecraft to land on the Red Planet.
The event [...]

A Sea Launch Zenit 3SL has launched with Galaxy 18 - a new Fixed Satellite Service (FSS) satellite for the PanAmSat Corporation - into a geosynchronous transfer orbit from its equatorial launch site in the Pacific ocean. Launch was on time at 2:43am PDT.
NASASpaceflight.com covered the launch as a live event, with background, [...]

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V (AV-014) has launched with the ICO-GI commercial telecommunications satellite from Cape Canaveral’s SLC-41 in Florida. Launch was on schedule at 4:12pm EDT.
NASASpaceflight.com covered the launch as a live event, with background, live updates, images - available on the links below (read more).

A Sea Launch Zenit 3SL has launched for the second time since its 2007 failure, carrying the DIRECTV 11 HD TV Satellite. Lift-off - in very cloudy conditions - was at 22:48 UTC.
DIRECTV 11, with a mass of a 5923 kg (13,058 lb), is one of three recent Boeing 702-model spacecraft built for [...]

The 334th launch of a Proton has failed, following lift-off from the PU-39 launch pad of launch complex LC200 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. The ILS (International Launch Services) mission carrying AMC-14 failed during the second burn of the Breeze M upper stage.
Meanwhile, a Delta II launch vehicle has launched with the Lockheed Martin [...]

Astronaut chief Steve Lindsey claims the risk from orbital debris to the International Space Station (ISS) will be negligible to nonexistent, after the US Navy shoots down the failed USA 193 (NROL-21) military satellite.
Lindsey, who briefed the astronaut corp in an e-mail on Friday, also used the opportunity to re-emphasize that the only [...]

Sea Launch have finally returned to flight, with the lift-off of their Zenit-3SL launch vehicle, carrying the Thuraya 3 telecommunications satellite for the United Arab Emirates. Launch was at 11:49am GMT, with the satellite successsfully placed into its desired orbit.
NASASpaceflight.com covered the launch as a live event, with extensive background, live updates, images [...]

The end to a busy year for the United Launch Alliance (ULA) has seen the launch of their Delta II launch vehicle, carrying the GPS IIR-18 spacecraft into orbit for the United States Air Force, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
Following a nominal 1 hour and 8 minute flight, the launch vehicle successfully [...]

United Launch Alliance (ULA) launched their Delta II 7420-10, carrying the COSMO-2 satellite - the second of four COSMO-SkyMed (Constellation of Small Satellites for Mediterranean basin Observation) satellites - from Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB), California.
NASASpaceflight.com are covering the launch as a live event, with live updates, images and a free video, available [...]

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy has lifted off for only the second time, carrying the Defense Support Program Satellite (DSP-23) from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s SLC-37B. Launch was slightly delayed to 8:50pm Eastern, following a short delay at T-5 minutes.
NASASpaceflight.com covered the launch as a live event through to [...]

A United Launch Alliance Delta II 7925-9.5 launch vehicle has lifted-off with the US Air Force’s Global Positioning System (GPS) IIR-17M satellite. Launch was at 8:23am Eastern, from Launch Complex 17A at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
NASASpaceflight.com covered the launch as a live event, with background, live updates, images and free video, available [...]

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V (421) has launched with the Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) SV-1 tonight. Lift-off was on time at 8:21pm Eastern from Launch Complex 41 (LC-41) at Cape Canaveral. Following a 30 minute ride - including two burns of the Centaur upper stage - spacecraft seperation was successful.
NASASpaceflight.com covered [...]

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta II launch vehicle has launched with the Orbital Sciences built Dawn spacecraft - en route to the asteroids Vesta and Ceres. Launch was at 7:34am Eastern, from Pad 17B at Cape Canaveral, slightly delayed by a ship entering the downrange field.
NASASpaceflight.com covered the launch as a live [...]

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta II vehicle has launched with the next-generation commercial imaging satellite, WorldView1, from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The launch was on time at 2:35pm Eastern.
Spacecraft separation occurred over an hour later, marking a successful conclusion to the launch stage of its mission. A free video [...]