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August 14, 2017

Two days after lifting off from Florida’s Space Coast, a Dragon cargo capsule packed with more than 6,400 pounds of research experiments and crew supplies is on track to arrive at the International Space Station on Wednesday. Astronaut Jack Fischer will use the station’s robotic arm to grapple the supply ship at around 7 a.m. EDT (1100 GMT).

News Headlines

  • NASA counts down final month of Cassini’s tour of Saturn

    August 15, 2017

    NASA’s Cassini orbiter sailed through the tenuous outermost reaches of Saturn’s atmosphere without trouble Monday, performing the first of five close swings nearer to the planet than any previous spacecraft before a final dive Sept. 15 to end the probe’s nearly 20-year mission.

  • NASA science-enabling relay satellite poised for launch atop Atlas 5 rocket

    August 15, 2017

    Resembling a cocooned insect with antennas and appendages tucked snuggly to its body for launch, NASA’s latest communications relay hub will be shot into space Friday to blossom in geosynchronous orbit for routing signals to and from the International Space Station, the Hubble Space Telescope and three dozen science observatories.

  • Timeline: Atlas 5/TDRS-M ascent events

    August 15, 2017

    This is the launch timeline to be followed by the Atlas 5 rocket’s ascent into orbit from Cape Canaveral with NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite-M. Launch is scheduled for Friday at 8:03 a.m. EDT (1203 GMT).

  • SpaceX launches cargo capsule full of science experiments

    August 14, 2017

    A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket climbed into space Monday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center atop a column of gleaming exhaust, shooting a commercial resupply vessel toward the International Space Station with research projects looking into cosmic rays, the origin of Parkinson’s disease, the utility of small satellites and an experimental radiation-tolerant supercomputer.

  • 4K video replay liftoff Falcon 9 rocket’s liftoff on station cargo flight

    August 14, 2017

    Check out a 4K video clip of Monday’s Falcon 9 launch viewed from Spaceflight Now’s office at the Kennedy Space Center.

  • Watch a liftoff-to-landing replay of Monday’s SpaceX launch

    August 14, 2017

    A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off Monday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, then the launcher’s first stage returned to landing at nearby Cape Canaveral Air Force Station after sending a Dragon supply ship toward a rendezvous with the International Space Station.

  • Video: Falcon 9 launch viewed from KSC press site

    August 14, 2017

    Watch a replay of Monday’s Falcon 9 launch as seen from the Kennedy Space Center press site, a viewpoint around three miles from pad 39A.

  • Video: Time-lapse of Falcon 9 rocket raised for launch at pad 39A

    August 14, 2017

    SpaceX’s ground team hydraulically hoisted a 213-foot-tall Falcon 9 rocket vertical at pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center before dawn Monday ahead of a planned liftoff with a space station-bound robotic resupply craft.

  • Photos: SpaceX rolls out rocket for next station resupply flight

    August 14, 2017

    SpaceX’s next Falcon 9 rocket rolled out of its hangar and up the ramp to launch pad 39A Sunday in preparation for liftoff on a two-day trek ferrying more than 6,400 pounds of supplies and experiments to the International Space Station.

  • Video: NASA and SpaceX brief media on space station cargo flight

    August 14, 2017

    Officials from NASA and SpaceX briefed the media on Monday’s scheduled launch of a commercial Dragon spacecraft on an automated resupply mission to the International Space Station. It will be the 12th SpaceX cargo flight to the research outpost.

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