Press Event
Oct. 10, 2019, 9 p.m.
NASA Administrator Visit at SpaceX Headquarters
SpaceX Headquarters, Hawthorne, CA, USA
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine will tour SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California, on Thursday, Oct. 10, to see the progress the company is making to fly astronauts to and from the International Space Station from American soil as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program.
Following the tour, SpaceX will host a media availability with Bridenstine, SpaceX Chief Engineer Elon Musk, and NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley – the crew for the Demo-2 flight test to the space station.
The media availability will be streamed live on Bridenstine’s Twitter account.
Long March 3
TJS-4 (TJSW-4)
Launch Complex 2 (LC-2) - Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of ChinaTJS-4 is a geosynchronous satellite which is used for multi-band and high-rate satellite communication technology verification.
Electron
As The Crow Flies
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Pegasus XL
Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON)
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Proton-M Briz-M
Eutelsat 5 West B & MEV-1
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Long March 4
Gaofen-10R
Launch Complex 9 - Taiyuan, People's Republic of ChinaGaofen is a series of civilian Earth observation satellites developed and launched for the China High-definition Earth Observation System (CHEOS), ...
Soyuz 2.1B
EKS 3 (Tundra 3) (Kosmos 2541)
43/4 (43R) - Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian FederationThe Tundra or EKS (meaning Unified Space System) series of satellites is the next generation of Russian early warning satellites.
Soyuz
Soyuz MS-15
1/5 - Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of KazakhstanSoyuz MS-15 begins expedition 61 by carrying NASA astronaut Jessica Meir, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka and United Arab Emirates’ Hazzaa Ali ...
Long March 2D
Yunhai-1-02
Launch Area 4 (SLS-2 / 603) - Jiuquan, People's Republic of ChinaThe Yunhai-1 satellite is designed for detecting environmental elements in the atmosphere and ocean, the space environment, disaster prevention and...
H-IIB
Kounotori 8 (HTV-8)
Osaki Y LP2 - Tanegashima, JapanUncrewed cargo resupply mission to International Space Station.
Long March 3B / YZ-1
Beidou-3 M23 & M24
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