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Dave Adalian

Launches: CAPSTONE recovery efforts continue

In Launches: Controllers improved communications with the CAPSTONE spacecraft following a loss of control on September 8, 2022.

Dave Adalian

September 18, 2022

Launches: The Owl Spreads Its Wings September 15

2 launches scheduled for today are Rocket Lab Electron and SpaceX Falcon 9. Both are attempting to create globe-spanning satellite networks.

Dave Adalian

September 15, 2022

Launches: Mammoth BlueWalker 3 satellite heads to orbit

AST SpaceMobile's BlueWalker 3 communications satellite successfully launched to orbit on September 10, 2022. Astronomers are concerned.

Dave Adalian

September 13, 2022

Launches: The Owl Spreads Its Wings on September 15

Rocket Lab's next launch - The Owl Spreads Its Wings on September 15, 2022 - will mark several milestones for the aerospace company.

Dave Adalian

September 7, 2022

Launches: A new northern spaceport, plus a tracking facility

A private Canadian company will build a new northern spaceport in Nova Scotia. And the U.S. will get a new satellite tracking facility in Alaska.

Dave Adalian

September 6, 2022

Launches: SpaceX gets 5 crewed missions to ISS

Today in Launches: NASA tapped SpaceX to provide 5 crewed missions to the ISS through 2030. The next crewed mission to the ISS is October 3.

Dave Adalian

September 1, 2022

Launches: SpaceX wraps up Starlink launches for August

SpaceX had five Starlink launches scheduled for August 2022. Starlink Group 3-4 took flight today, August 31, from the Vandenberg SFB in California.

Lia De La Cruz

Dave Adalian

Deborah Byrd

August 30, 2022

Launches: Ashes of Star Trek’s Lt. Uhura and others to go to space

Launches for August 26: Remains of Star Trek celebrities, including Nichelle Nichols who played Lt. Uhura, will be part of a memorial spaceflight later in 2022.

Dave Adalian

August 26, 2022

Launches: Rocket Lab probe to look for life in Venus clouds

In 2023, the aerospace company Rocket Lab will launch a private mission to probe the atmosphere of Venus for signs of life.

Dave Adalian

Kelly Kizer Whitt

August 25, 2022

Launches: We are going! Plus, a private space station

Launches blog for August 23: NASA tweets that Artemis 1 is still slated for launch August 29 ... And gives the nod to a private space station concept.

Deborah Byrd

Dave Adalian

August 23, 2022

Dave Adalian

Award-winning reporter and editor Dave Adalian's fascination with the cosmos began during a long-ago summer school trip. That fieldtrip never ended, and still Dave pursues adventures under the night sky. Dave grew up in California's Tulare County - where the San Joaquin Valley meets the Sierra Nevada - a wilderness larger than Delaware and Rhode Island combined. He studied English, American literature and mass communications at the College of the Sequoias and the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has worked as a reporter and editor for a variety news publications on- and offline during a career spanning more than 30 years.