On Friday, May 13th, at 3:07 p.m. PT, a SpaceX Falcon 9 launched 53 Starlink satellites to LEO from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. The Vandenberg AFB launch marks the fourth Starlink deployment from Vandenberg, and the 23rd Falcon-9 launch from SLC-4E. This Falcon 9 first stage booster […]
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Terran Orbital Ships NASA’s CAPSTONE Smallsat To New Zealand For Rocket Lab’s Launch Vehicle Payload Integration
Terran Orbital Corporation (NYSE: LLAP) has shipped their CAPSTONE satellite to a launch site on the Mahia Peninsula of New Zealand. CAPSTONE will launch on a Rocket Lab Electron rocket using a Lunar Photon satellite upper stage to send the spacecraft on its planned lunar transfer trajectory. This historic pathfinding mission supports NASA’s Artemis program […]
INNOSPACE And Brazilian Department of Aerospace Science and Technology Sign A Technological Agreement For Flight Tests
The HANBIT-TLV will carry onboard the payload SISNAV, an inertial navigation system being developed by DCTA and other institutions. INNOSPACE, a South Korean space startup for small launch vehicles, signed an agreement with the Brazilian Department of Aerospace Science and Technology (“DCTA”) to launch SISNAV, an inertial navigation system project supported by Finep and AEB. […]
PlanetiQ’s GNSS Navigation And Occultation Measurement Satellite’s (GNOMES) Successful Launch
PlanetiQ announces the successful launch and commissioning of the GNOMES-3 satellite. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launched GNOMES-3 into a 646 km circular sun synchronous orbit April 1st on the company’s Transporter-4 mission. The spacecraft’s commercial payload “Pyxis-RO”, a 4th generation GNSS-Radio Occultation instrument, has also been commissioned with its first high quality atmospheric sounding data […]
Arianespace’s Upcomig June Launch On Ariane 5 For India And Malaysia
Mission VA257 will help improve the broadband coverage in the Asia-Pacific region. This Ariane 5 launch from Arianespace’s Guiana Space Center, Europe’s Spaceport, is scheduled for June 22, during a launch window from 21:03 to 22:43 UTC. This is the first Ariane 5 of the year that will orbit two geostationary telecommunication satellites, MEASAT-3d and GSAT-24. […]
Spaceflight’s 50th Mission All Groomed + Set For A Rocket Lab Electron Launch
Spaceflight Inc. is preparing for their 50th mission, which will launch aboard a Rocket Lab Electron rocket no earlier than April 22. The RL-9 mission, called “There and Back Again,” is scheduled to launch from Rocket Lab’s Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand. Following this launch, Spaceflight will have successfully launched 448 spacecraft across 50 […]
SpaceX’s Successful Launch Of 53 Starlink Sats And Twelfth Recovery Of Just Read The Instructions
In the unlikely event their propulsion system becomes inoperable, the satellites will burn up in Earth’s atmosphere within 1-5 years, significantly less than the hundreds or thousands of years required at higher altitudes… After a slight delay due to weather, SpaceX was launched on a picture perfect day in Florida. This provided the stage for […]
Launches By New Space India Limited Are In OneWeb’s Immediate Future For Their On-Orbit Constellation Additions
OneWeb and New Space India Limited, the commercial arm of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), have entered into an agreement that will help ensure OneWeb completes its satellite launch program. The first launch with New Space India is anticipated in 2022 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) SHAR, Sriharikota. The launches will add […]
Rocket Lab Secures Multi-Launch Contract With HawkEye 360 — This Will Be The Company’s Baptismal Electron Launch From LC2 On Wallops Island, Virginia
Rocket Lab (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or “the Company”) has been selected by Virginia-based HawkEye 360 to launch three Electron missions for the radio frequency geospatial analytics provider — the first of the three missions is scheduled to be Rocket Lab’s inaugural Electron mission from Launch Complex 2 on Wallops Island, Virginia, ushering in an […]
SpaceX + USSF’s Delta 30 Successfully Launch The NROL-85 Mission
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the NROL-85 mission pushed off from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Sunday, April17, at 6:13 .m., Pacific Time. Colonel Rob Long, Space Launch Delta 30 commander, was the launch decision authority. “Today the Western Range teamed with the National Reconnaissance […]