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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 533

Cape Canaveral

NASA's moon rocket, the most powerful it has ever built stands ready less than 24 hours before it was scheduled to launch on Pad 39B for the Artemis 1 mission to orbit the moon at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida, August 28, 2022. (AP/John Raoux)
August 29, 2022, 1:06 pm
Fuel leak interrupts launch countdown of new NASA moon rocket
Same malfunction pushed back April’s scheduled test flight of spacecraft, which hosts demo of Israeli-made radiation suit; Friday is earliest date for next attempt
By Marcia Dunn
NASA's Mars 2020 rover will store rock and soil samples in sealed tubes on the planet's surface for future missions to retrieve, as seen in this illustration. (NASA)
July 30, 2020, 7:00 pm
NASA launches rover to look for signs of ancient life on Mars
Perseverance will pick up samples from Martian surface, which will later be flown back to Earth for study
By Marcia Dunn
A SpaceX Falcon 9, with NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken in the Dragon crew capsule, lifts off from Pad 39-A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, May 30, 2020 (AP Photo/John Raoux)
May 31, 2020, 12:46 am
SpaceX blasts off on historic crewed launch, opening commercial space travel era
Elon Musk’s company becomes first private organization to take humans to orbit, ending nine-year launch drought for NASA since retirement of the space shuttle
By Marcia Dunn
SpaceX launches Amos-17 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, August 6, 2019 (Screen grab)
August 7, 2019, 8:12 am
Israeli Amos-17 satellite successfully launched into space
3 years after launchpad explosion destroyed Amos-6, Spacecom’s newest satellite is launched from Cape Canaveral
By Shoshanna Solomon
The Amos-17 is scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral on Aug. 4, Israel time, atop of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket (Raphael Mizrahi)
August 4, 2019, 12:46 pm
Launch of Amos-17 satellite delayed, SpaceX targets Tuesday
Spacecom’s satellite was scheduled to take off from Cape Canaveral early Sunday, Israel time; delay due to suspect faulty valve on Falcon 9 rocket
By Shoshanna Solomon
An image of the sun's atmosphere from NASA's Parker Solar Probe mission, captured on Nov. 8, 2018. (NASA via Twitter)
December 22, 2018, 3:46 pm
Israeli tech helped NASA capture first image from Sun’s atmosphere
Israel’s TowerJazz says it worked with a nonprofit to develop imaging technology for the US government
By ToI Staff and Agencies
In this photo provided by NASA, The United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket launches NASA's Parker Solar Probe to touch the Sun, Aug. 12, 2018 from Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)
August 12, 2018, 11:32 am
NASA spacecraft blasts off toward sun for closest look yet
Launch comes after space agency scrapped Saturday’s launch; unmanned probe’s main goal is to unveil the secrets of the corona, the unusual atmosphere around the star
By Agencies
This photo provided by NASA shows the United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket with the Parker Solar Probe onboard shortly after the Mobile Service Tower was rolled back Aug. 10, 2018, Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)
August 11, 2018, 8:25 am
2 minutes before launch, NASA delays flight of first spacecraft to explore Sun
Space agency says will try again Sunday; unmanned probe’s main goal is to unveil the secrets of the corona, the unusual atmosphere around the star
By Agencies
This photo released by NASA shows a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas-V rocket with NASA's InSight spacecraft onboard shortly after the mobile service tower was rolled back, Friday, May 4, 2018, at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)
May 5, 2018, 6:12 pm
NASA launches InSight spacecraft to Mars to dig down deep
Spacecraft will take more than six months to get to red planet and start its unprecedented geologic excavations
By Marcia Dunn
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket transporting the TESS satellite lifts off from launch complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, April 18, 2018. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
April 19, 2018, 4:33 am
SpaceX blasts off NASA’s new spacecraft on quest to find new planets
Tess, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, will scan neighboring stars in an effort to find celestial bodies outside our solar system
By Marcia Dunn
Participating high school students hold up the Duchifat-2 nanosatellite that was launched into space from the Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida, April 18, 2017. (Israel Space Agency/Roi Greenberg)
April 19, 2017, 10:52 am
Nanosatellite built by Israeli high-schoolers blasts into space
‘Duchifat-2,’ a joint venture by dozens of pupils from around the country, will study the lower thermosphere
By Stuart Winer
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