SpaceX rocket launch in Florida falls on Fri. 13th
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What time is liftoff? ULA's Atlas V should be visible outside of Florida pending weather. Did your city, state make the rocket launch visibility map?
"The rocket reached a height of 1.1 km, and shortly after, a small payload was released. Once it dropped to about five metres from the ground, its parachute deployed and the satellite landed within 400 metres of the launch site," news agency PTI quoted ISRO scientist Abhishek Singh as saying.
The timely detection of a "crack in an oxidizer line" in the first stage of the Falcon-9 rocket - which will take four astronauts, including India's Shubhanshu Shukla, to the International Space Station - averted a major disaster.
The upcoming mission is known as NS-33, because it will be the 33rd overall launch of Blue Origin 's reusable, autonomous New Shepard vehicle. It will be the company's 13th human spaceflight mission. Here's a brief rundown of the six NS-33 passengers, using information provided by Blue Origin.
One of the more memorable rocket launches came early in Rich’s career.
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Elon Musk's SpaceX has led the way with tons of Starlink launches from Florida. Now, Jeff Bezos is looking to compete with Amazon's Kuiper satellites.
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Space.com on MSNRocket Lab launches Japanese Earth-observing radar satellite to orbitRocket Lab launched an Earth-observing radar satellite to orbit for the Japanese company iQPS on Wednesday morning (June 11). An Electron rocket topped with the QPS-SAR-11 spacecraft lifted off from Rocket Lab 's New Zealand site on Wednesday at 11:31 a.m. EDT (1531 GMT; 3:31 a.m. on June 12 local New Zealand time).
Watch the massive Artemis 1 moon rocket arriving at Launch Complex 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: NASA | edited by Steve Spaleta Music: “Our Rocket t