The usual ballet of reviews to ensure safe flight has moved through another key stage, following the full review of STS-119’s IFAs (In Flight Anomalies). With the next two missions heading to different orbital destinations, part of the IFA review will go towards STS-125’s upcoming Flight Readiness Review (FRR), and the ISS related section forwarded to Endeavour’s STS-127 mission.
"Booster 9"
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Launch Roundup: Alpha, Spectrum, Electron, and Falcon 9 set to fly
by Martin SmithThe week ahead includes three launches scheduled for Wednesday and the third Electron rocket to…
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Launch Roundup: Electron, Falcon 9, and Ceres-1 launches flying this week
The busy launch manifests of recent weeks are continuing, with Falcon 9, Electron, and Chinese…
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After scrubbing a launch attempt on Monday, March 3, and destacking Ship 34 to address…
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SpaceX launched its second lunar mission of 2025, just over a month after flying the…
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Launch Roundup: Starlink and CZ-8A launches planned; Falcon booster to land in Bahamas
China conducted the debut flight of an upgraded version of the Chang Zheng 8 medium-lift…
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Ship 33 and Booster 14 lifted off at 4:37 PM CST from Starbase, Texas, for…
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SpaceX launched not one but two lunar landers to the Moon on the same mission,…
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Launch Roundup: New Glenn set for maiden flight, Falcon 9 missions end and start the year
by Martin SmithFollowing an exceptionally busy December, this week started the new year with only four scheduled…
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Three weeks after Flight 6, SpaceX has static fired Booster 14 and rolled Ship 33…
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Launch Roundup: Kairos stands down second launch attempt, Falcon 9 to launch 03, GPS and NRO missions
by Martin SmithThis week, Japanese commercial company Space One stood down two attempts to launch its Kairos…
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Launch Roundup: Falcon 9 launches continue, Rocket Lab to launch two Electrons, Russia to fly to ISS
by John SharpFollowing the sixth flight of SpaceX’s Starship on Tuesday, eight additional orbital launches were planned…
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Another Starship flight is in the books after a flawless countdown and waiting through the…
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When SpaceX launched Starship and Super Heavy for its first flight test in April 2023,…
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Launch Roundup: Falcon 9 launches customer payloads, China fly resupply mission to Tiangong
While SpaceX flew Starship on its sixth integrated test flight, the company also flew three…
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Flight 5 Ship 30 and Booster 12 lifted off at 7:25 am Central Time on…
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Launch Roundup: Starship flies, booster caught
by John SharpSpaceX flew the Starship-Super Heavy on Sunday, Oct. 13. This was the fifth test flight…
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ESA’s Hera mission launched to asteroid binary as Falcon 9 returns to flight
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Hera mission, which is traveling to asteroid Didymos and its…
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SpaceX and NASA have launched Crew-9 for its six-month mission aboard the International Space Station…
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Launch Roundup: NASA Crew-9 flies half-empty, Starlink and Chinese launches continue
by John SharpNASA and SpaceX’s launch of the Crew-9 mission took center stage this week. The launch…