NASA is ready for its second flight test of Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator

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The second flight test of +NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) is expected today, Tuesday, June 2nd, The flight test is a launch of a rocket-powered, saucer-shaped test vehicle into near-space from the Pacific Missile Range Facility on the island of Kauai in Hawaii. At launch time, a giant balloon will carry the test vehicle to an altitude of about 36 km. 

Credit image: +NASA 

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The India GSLV launch has been delayed after a fuel leak

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yesterday India planed to launch GSLV rocket with the payload GSAT-14 from the Satish Dhawan Space Center at Sriharikota Island on India's east coast. However, it seems that a fuel leak before the countdown stop the launch process. This launch should be the first one since back-to-back failures in 2010.

Credits: ISRO

The Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicule (GSLV) is and expendable launch system operated by the India Space Reasearch Organisation (ISRO). This launcher has been developed to enable India to launch its own INSAT-type satellites into GEO orbit and to make India less dependent on foreign rockets such as Ariane5 or the Soyuz program.

Successful launch of the new NASA Sun-watching spacecraft IRIS

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few days ago, we proposed you a picture of the incoming new probe developed by +NASA for the Sun observation, called IRIS. Yesterday afternoon, after a delayed launch, the Sun-watching probe has been launched in orbit with success.

Credits: +NASA 

This new space rocket, called Pegasus, has been dropped by a plane at around 12 km above the Pacific Ocean, about 160 km northwest of Vandenberg. After a five second freefall, the Pegasus rocket started and carried the Sun-watching, IRIS, into Earth orbit.
The +NASA engineers and scientists hope that the observations performed by IRIS will help them to understand more in details how energy and material move around the Sun.

You could find above the video of the launch :

Credits: +NASA