SpaceX is targeting Tuesday, September 13, for a Falcon 9 launch of 54 Starlink satellites to LEO from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in […]
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SpaceX lifts 34 Starlinks + AST Space Mobile’s BlueWalker 3 to orbit via their Falcon 9
On Saturday, September 10th, at 9:20 p.m., ET, SpaceX launched 34 Starlink satellites to enhance their constellation, as well as AST SpaceMobile’s BlueWalker 3 satellite, to orbit from Launch Complex […]
Iridium announces their 9th SpaceX launch to occur in mid-2023
Iridium Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: IRDM) has reached an agreement with SpaceX to launch as many as five of the company’s remaining, ground spare satellites from the Iridium® NEXT program, on […]
UPDATE 2: Arianespace’s Flight VA258 to launch the EUTELSAT KONNECT VHTS has been postponed
UPDATE 1 Due to adverse weather conditions at the Guiana Space Center (CSG), flight VA258 – initially scheduled for September 6 – is postponed. The Ariane 5 launch vehicle and […]
SpaceX launches another 51 Starlinks to orbit aboard a Falcon 9
On Sunday, September 4 at 10:09 p.m. ET, SpaceX launched 51 Starlink satellites and Spaceflight’s Sherpa-LTC, an orbital transfer vehicle (OTV), to orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at […]
UPDATE 4: Another delay for Artemis due to fuel leakage
UPDATE 4 Another delay, September 3, has prevented the Artemis launch. However all was bright as earlier this Saturday morning the NASA launch director called a “go” for propellant loading, […]
SpaceX’s 46 Starlinks successfully launched from Falcon 9
On Tuesday, August 30 at 10:40 p.m. PT, SpaceX‘s Falcon 9 launched 46 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, […]
UPDATE 1: Blue Origin’s NS-23 mission is scrubbed
UPDATE 1 Weather has proven to be the undoing of the Blue Origin NS-23 launch, scheduled for today, August 31, in West Texas. The company will advise when a new […]
Alba Orbital + SAB coordinate the first European launch of PocketQube satellites on board a Vega rocket + as well as six pico-satellite deployers
Alba Orbital Inc. and SAB Launch Services S.r.l. (SAB LS) have signed an agreement to fly six AlbaPod pico-satellite deployers, and respective PocketQubes, on Arianespace Vega missions VV25 and VV26. […]
SpaceX’s Starlinks sent soaring on Falcon 9’s second flight and its heaviest payload ever launched
On Saturday, August 27 at 11:41 p.m. ET, SpaceX launched 54 Starlink satellites from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. This was the […]