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For the purposes of this section, the yearly tally of orbital launches by country assigns each flight to the country of origin of the rocket, not to the launch services provider or the spaceport. For example, Electron rockets launched from the Māhia Peninsula in New Zealand are counted under the United States because Electron is an American ...
Midas 9: July 19, 1963 2,000 Point Arguello LV-3A Atlas-Agena B 88.40 ----- Missile Defense Alarm System. Did not eject ERS 10 subsatellite. Midas 10: June 9, 1966 2,000 Vandenberg SLV-3 Atlas-Agena D 90.00 1966-051A Missile Defense Alarm System. Left in transfer orbit. Midas 11: Aug. 19, 1966 2,000 Vandenberg SLV-3 Atlas-Agena D 89.70 1966-077A
The Defense Support Program replaced the 1960s space-based infrared Missile Defense Alarm System (MIDAS). The first successful launch of MIDAS (MIDAS-2) was 24 May 1960 and there were twelve launches before the DSP program replaced it in 1970.
Initially scheduled to launch on Wednesday, SpaceX is now targeting Thursday due to weather, the company shared on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter that Musk purchased in 2022.
Mission: A Falcon 9 will launch a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft packed with nearly 6,000 pounds of science investigations, supplies and equipment to the International Space Station. Launch: 9:29 p.m. EST
The head of Roscosmos, Yuri Borisov, signed off on the timetable with the directors of 19 enterprises involved in creating the new station. The agency confirmed plans to launch an initial ...
Maiden flight of ISRO's Next Generation Launch Vehicle (NGLV), codenamed Soorya. 2031–2032 (TBD) [39] TBA: TBA: TBA: DAVINCI: NASA: Cytherocentric: Venus atmospheric probe NASA Discovery Program mission to Venus. 2028 (TBD) [40] Commercial launch vehicle Cape Canaveral or Kennedy: TBA: Sample Retrieval Lander: NASA / ESA: TMI to Martian ...
Engineers determined that a small crack on the hatch seal wouldn't present enough of an issue to abort the launch, and the mission achieved liftoff at 10:53 p.m. Mission crew members on the ground ...