Sentinel-6B, a joint US-European ocean monitoring satellite, launched Sunday aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Liftoff from Vandenberg Space Force Base took place at 9:21 p.m. Pacific time (05:21 UTC on Monday).
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NASA and SpaceX successfully launched the agency’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) from Florida…
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The final satellite of the GOES-R series of satellites, GOES-U, was launched on June 25…
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The Atlas rocket family, a staple of the US launch industry since June 11, 1957,…
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Rocket Lab has launched its 31st Electron rocket on the “It Argos Up From Here”…
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NOAA, NASA, and Northrop Grumman complete major testing for JPSS-2 before launch
by Lee KanayamaThe National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), NASA, and Northrop Grumman have completed the final…
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United Launch Alliance (ULA) has launched the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)-T advanced weather satellite…
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Since the dawn of the satellite era, weather satellites have been an instrumental and mainstay…
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NOAA recovers from latest GOES-17 weather satellite issue, plans to replace it next year
by Lee KanayamaThe National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA’s) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)-East/17 has suffered another…
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The first of four next-generation weather satellites has completed assembly at Lockheed Martin. The new…