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The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) successfully launched the BlueBird Block-2 communications satellite into low Earth orbit from Sriharikota spaceport on Wednesday (December 24), the agency said. “This is the heaviest satellite ever lifted from Indian soil using an Indian launcher," said ISRO chief V. Narayanan. The satellite, launched for AST SpaceMobile, is the largest commercial communications satellite in orbit, and is designed to provide space-based cellular broadband directly to

On its second test flight Tuesday, Astra’s privately-developed small satellite launcher ran out of fuel seconds before reaching the velocity needed to enter orbit but exceeded the company’s expectations with an otherwise-successful climb into space from Kodiak Island, Alaska. 📷: Astra Read more: https://spaceflightnow.com/2020/12/16/astras-smallsat-launcher-reaches-space-on-second-test-flight/ | Spaceflight Now

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NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration just rolled out the Space Launch System (SLS), an 11-million-pound rocket built to return humans to the moon. 🚀🌕 This powerful launch vehicle will carry the Artemis II mission, sending four astronauts around the Moon and beyond Earth orbit for the first time since Apollo 17. It took 12 hours to move the rocket just four miles to the launch pad. With over 8.8 million pounds of thrust at liftoff, the SLS is NASA’s most powerful rocket to date.