A Chinese Long March 3 rocket successfully launched a new weather satellite on Sunday, the Xinhua News Agency reported. Thursday NASA plans to launch the first spacecraft in a new generation of tracking and data relay satellites on Thursday morning aboard a Lockheed Martin Atlas 2A rocket from Cape Canaveral. Next Launch A Lockheed Martin Atlas 2AS is scheduled to launch a classified payload for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office on Sept. 8 from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. Visit the Tracking Station for a full listing of upcoming launches. 20,000 images added to Mars album.
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