The UK Civil Aviation Authority has issued the final, remaining licenses to Virgin Orbit ahead of the company’s planned UK launch after the agency’s requirements were met within 15 months. […]
Launch Vehicle
UPDATE: 2nd delay for South Korea’s INNOSPACE’s first test flight of the HANBIT-TLV rocket
UPDATE 2 INNOSPACE, a South Korean private spaceflight startup for small satellite launch vehicles, set December 20th (Brasilia Time, BRT) for the first rocket engine test flight of the HANBIT-TLV, […]
NASA awards SpaceX with the Sentinel-6B launch services contract
NASA has selected Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the Sentinel-6B mission. Sentinel-6B will continue the long-term, global sea level, data record started in […]
ATSpace + Southern Launch will attempt to launch their VS03 mission by December 20th
On December15, 2022, ATSpace prepared a Kestrel I rocket for the VS02 mission from the Whalers Way Orbital Launch Complex in South Australia. During the oxidizer filling process, a leak […]
Spaceflight’s 10th + final 2022 mission to ride to orbit via SpaceX Transporter 6
Spaceflight Inc. is preparing the firm’s 10th and final launch of 2022, providing the launch and integration services for Kleos Space’s fourth satellite cluster, Observer, through ISISPACE Group on SpaceX’s […]
SpaceX lifts 54 additional Starlinks to LEO
On Saturday, December 17th at 4:32 p.m., ET, SpaceX launched 54 Starlink satellites to LEO from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida (photo below). This […]
UPDATE 3: SWOT sailing to slot courtesy of SpaceX + Falcon 9
On Friday, December 16, at 3:46 a.m., PT, SpaceX launched NASA’s Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission to LEO from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force […]
UPDATE 1: VS03 mission scheduled for lift off after the VS02 mission launch scrubbed during countdown
On December 15, 2022, ATSpace prepared a Kestrel I rocket for the VS02 mission from the Whalers Way Orbital Launch Complex in South Australia. During the oxidizer filling process, a […]
EUMETSAT’s MTG-11 + two Intelsat satellites are successfully sent to orbit via an Arianespace Ariane 5 launch vehicle
On Tuesday, December 13th, 2022, at 5:30 p.m. local time, an Ariane 5 launcher, operated by Arianespace, successfully lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana (South America), carrying […]
UPDATE 6: NASA’s Artemis I mission draws to a successful close
NASA’s Artemis I mission came to a successful conclusion on December 11th with the splashdown and recovery of the Orion spacecraft — this mission was an uncrewed, integrated flight test […]