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On 23 November 2015, the Blue Origin New Shepard suborbital rocket achieved its first powered soft landing near the launch site, paving the way for full reuse of its propulsion stage. On 21 December, the maiden flight of the SpaceX Falcon 9 Full Thrust took place, ending with a successful landing of its first stage.
The first successful launch of an Athena II carried NASA's Lunar Prospector spacecraft on a mission to search for traces of water or ice on the moon. Terra (Atlas IIAS) NASA launched the Earth Observing System's flagship satellite "Terra," named for Earth, in 1999. Terra has been collecting data about the changes in Earth's climate brought on ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... and Space Shuttle spacecraft with their launch vehicles. This is a list of NASA ... launched March 2015, [38 ...
This is a timeline of known spaceflights, both crewed and uncrewed, sorted chronologically by launch date.Due to its large size, the timeline has been split into smaller articles, one for each year since 1951.
NASA Discovery Program mission to Venus. 2031 (TBD) [42] Commercial launch vehicle Cape Canaveral or Kennedy: TBA: Sample Retrieval Lander: NASA / ESA: TMI to Martian surface: Mars sample-return Mars Ascent Vehicle: NASA: Martian surface to TMI: Mars sample-return Lander component of the NASA–ESA Mars sample-return mission. It will carry NASA ...
Launch outcome AV-052 January 21, 2015, 01:04 Atlas V 551: CCAFS SLC-41: MUOS-3: 6,740 kg GTO: DoD: Success [34] Third Mobile User Objective System satellite; 200th Atlas-Centaur launch. AV-053 March 13, 2015, 02:44 Atlas V 421: CCAFS SLC-41: MMS: 1,360 kg HTO: NASA: Success [35] NASA Magnetosphere research constellation. AV-054 May 20, 2015 ...
28 November 2017: Launch failure IDEA-OSG 1 Astroscale: Low Earth Technology demonstration: 28 November 2017: Launch failure LEO Vantage 2 TeleSat Canada: Low Earth Communications (experimental) 28 November 2017: Launch failure ⚀ Corvus-BC 3 Astro Digital Low Earth Earth observation: 28 November 2017: Launch failure ⚀ D-Star One
The joint NASA-ESA Titan Saturn System Mission proposal envisioned the SLS as an option for launch. [26] On 10 February 2021, it was announced that Europa Clipper would not launch aboard an SLS. [27] In July 2021, NASA booked a SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch for Europa Clipper at a price of $178 million. [28]