Satellite News

Space shuttle Endeavour was launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 0628 UTC and beginning the STS-123 mission to the International Space Station.

This collection of images shows space shuttle Endeavour’s middle-of-the-night launch Tuesday. The ship soared from pad 39A and disappeared into a low deck of clouds over the launch site a half-minute after liftoff.

Two days after an electronics box cut off a quarter of a European space station resupply ship’s propulsion system, controllers successfully revived the suspect command chain and tested its ability to work properly during a series of engine firings Tuesday.