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Two launches for OneWeb this month will enable network’s global coverage

A stack of 36 OneWeb satellites awaiting launch later this month on an Indian GSLV Mk.3 rocket. Credit: OneWeb

OneWeb is in the home stretch of a four-year launch campaign with two more missions — scheduled this week with SpaceX and later this month with NewSpace India Limited — set to give the company enough satellites to provide global internet coverage.

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Relativity Space scrubs first launch attempt

Relativity Space’s 110-foot-tall Terran 1 rocket during Wednesday’s launch attempt. Credit: Relativity Space

Relativity Space’s first launch countdown aborted about a minute before liftoff Wednesday at Cape Canaveral when sensors detected warmer-than-expected liquid oxygen on the Terran 1 rocket’s second stage, delaying until Saturday the first test flight of the 3D-printed launcher.

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Launch day timeline for Relativity Space’s Terran 1 rocket

Relativity Space’s Terran 1 rocket on Launch Complex 16 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Credit: Relativity Space / Trevor Mahlmann

Relativity Space’s 10-story-tall Terran 1 rocket will encounter the most extreme aerodynamic forces of its eight-minute test flight around 80 seconds after liftoff from Cape Canaveral. That’s a key moment when the company’s engineers hope to confirm the 3D-printed rocket can withstand the rigors of launch.

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Relativity Space ready to launch first 3D-printed, methane-fueled orbital rocket

Relativity Space’s 110-foot-tall (33.5-meter) Terran 1 rocket on its launch pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Credit: Relativity Space / Trevor Mahlmann

Relativity Space, a California-based startup that counts billionaire Mark Cuban as one of its early investors, will try to launch the first 3D-printed, methane-fueled rocket into orbit from Cape Canaveral Wednesday.

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Weather forecast favorable for Relativity’s first orbital launch attempt

Relativity Space’s Terran 1 rocket rolls out to Launch Complex 16 at Cape Canaveral. Credit: Relativity Space / Trevor Mahlmann

Forecasters from the U.S. Space Force predict mostly sunny conditions at Cape Canaveral during a three-hour launch window Wednesday afternoon for the first flight of Relativity Space’s Terran 1 rocket.

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SpaceX launches Starlink satellites from California after delays

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base on the Starlink 2-7 mission. Credit: SpaceX

SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket with 51 more Starlink internet satellites from California on Friday after a delay of several days to wait for liftoff of a higher-priority crew mission from Florida.

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Japan’s flagship H3 rocket fails on first test flight

Japan’s first H3 rocket lifts off on an ill-fated test flight with the ALOS 3 Earth observation satellite. Credit: JAXA

Japan’s first H3 rocket, designed to launch satellites and resupply space stations, fell back to Earth Monday (U.S. time) after its second stage engine failed to ignite five minutes into the new launcher’s inaugural test flight, destroying the rocket and a three-ton Earth observation spacecraft.

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Live coverage: Japan’s new H3 rocket poised for first test flight

Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Japanese H3 rocket from Tanegashima Space Center in Japan. The mission will launch the Advanced Land Observing Satellite 3 mission for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. Follow us on Twitter.

JAXA Webcast

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Japan’s new H3 rocket ready for another launch attempt after last-second abort

Japan’s H3 rocket rolls out to its launch pad at the Tanegashima Space Center before a second launch attempt March 6 (U.S. time). Credit: JAXA

After an electrical problem kept Japan’s first H3 rocket on the ground during a launch attempt last month, teams wheeled the new hydrogen-fueled launcher back to its firing stand for another countdown Monday to try to send an Earth observation satellite into orbit.

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SpaceX capsule docks at space station with multinational crew

The arrival of the four-man crew on SpaceX’s Dragon Endeavour spacecraft — wearing blue flight suits — temporarily raised the size of the space station crew to 11 people. Credit: NASA TV / Spaceflight Now

SpaceX’s Dragon Endeavour spacecraft linked up with the International Space Station Friday, delivering two NASA astronauts, an Emirati astronaut, and a Russian cosmonaut to the complex after a short delay for ground teams to uplink a software fix to mask a bad sensor on the capsule’s docking mechanism.

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SpaceX rocket boosts U.S.-Russian-Emirati crew into orbit

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and the Dragon Endeavour spacecraft lift off at 12:34 a.m. EST (0534 GMT) Thursday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: SpaceX

SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket Thursday from Kennedy Space Center with a four-man crew heading for a six-month stay on the International Space Station, including the first Arab astronaut to fly on a long-duration space mission.

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Live coverage: SpaceX ready for Starlink launch from California

Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on the Starlink 2-7 mission with 51 Starlink internet satellites. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.

SpaceX Webcast

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Crew-6 mission timeline

The timeline below covers major vehicle and crew activities during the Crew-5 countdown and rendezvous with the International Space Station. All times assume liftoff of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 12:34:14 a.m. EST (1534:14 GMT) on March 2. All times in Eastern Standard Time (GMT-5).

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Live coverage: SpaceX counting down to overnight launch of NASA crew mission

Watch our live coverage of the countdown and flight of SpaceX’s Crew-6 mission carrying NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen, Warren “Woody” Hoburg, United Arab Emirates astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, and Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev to the International Space Station. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter.

SFN Live

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SpaceX Crew Dragon poised for second launch attempt

STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION

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SpaceX crew launch scrubbed after concern with engine ignitor system

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket on pad 39A Sunday night. Credit: Michael Cain / Spaceflight Now / Coldlife Photography

SpaceX scrubbed the launch from Florida of a four-man crew heading to the International Space Station early Monday with less than three minutes remaining in the countdown, delaying the start of a six-month mission to examine a problem with a ground system needed to ignite the Falcon 9 rocket’s main engines.

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Live coverage: SpaceX counting down to first launch of upgraded Starlink satellites

Watch our live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on the Starlink 6-1 mission at 6:13 p.m. EST (2313 GMT) on Feb. 27 from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. Follow us on Twitter.

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SpaceX unveils first batch of larger upgraded Starlink satellites

EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated Feb. 27 with delay of Starlink launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

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Live coverage: SpaceX set to launch four-man crew to space station

Live coverage of the countdown and flight of SpaceX’s Crew-6 mission carrying NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen, Warren “Woody” Hoburg, United Arab Emirates astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, and Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev on a flight to the International Space Station. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter.

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SpaceX Crew Dragon poised for overnight launch to space station

STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION

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Unpiloted Soyuz spacecraft docks at space station to replace damaged crew capsule

The Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft closes in for docking Saturday night at the International Space Station. Credit: NASA TV / Spaceflight Now

A replacement for a damaged Russian Soyuz crew ferry spacecraft docked at the International Space Station Saturday night, two days after launching from Kazakhstan on a mission to give two Russian cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut a ride back to Earth later this year.

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