AST SpaceMobile, Inc. (“AST SpaceMobile”) (NASDAQ: ASTS), the company building the first and only space-based cellular broadband network accessible directly by standard mobile phones, has announced that the company’s BlueWalker 3 test satellite (BW3) has arrived at Cape Canaveral. The satellite recently departed an off-site testing facility in California after collecting flight data for the […]
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China’s Long March rocket launches 16 satellites
According to the Chinese news agency, Xinhua, 16 new satellites were delivered into space from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in the northern province of Shanxi. The satellites, including a Jilin-1 Gaofen 03D09 satellite and Yunyao-1 04-08 satellites, were launched by a Long March-6 carrier rocket at 12:50 p.m., Beijing Time, and successfully entered their […]
TriSept satellite security solution experimental mission payloads to be launched by RocketStar
TriSept Corporation has completed the integration of two experimental mission payloads running the company’s new TSEL satellite security operating software for a suborbital test flight aboard RocketStar’s launch vehicle that is set to liftoff from the Koehn Lake Bed in the Mojave Desert. TriSept has teamed with RocketStar and its 40-foot-tall, aerospike-powered Cowbell rocket to […]
UPDATE 1: 52 Starlinks are launched to join the SpaceX smallsat constellation
On Tuesday, August 9th, at 10:14 p.m., ET, SpaceX launched 52 Starlink satellites from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This was the third flight for the Falcon 9 first stage booster supporting this mission, which previously launched SES-22 and now, two Starlink missions. Earlier mission info… SpaceX is targeting Tuesday, […]
Nanoracks’ multiple customer payloads launched on the SpaceX CRS-25 mission
Nanoracks had several payloads that launched on the SpaceX CRS-25 (SpX-25) mission in July of 2022 — some of these payloads have been in the works for three years. These payloads were sent as part of a resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) for scientific research and technology demonstrations that will be instrumental […]
Artemis I ready for launch according to ESA + NASA
ESA and NASA’s Artemis I spacecraft is cleared for launch after a series of final tests at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. ESA’s European Service Module (ESM) will provide electrical power and propel the uncrewed Orion capsule in an extended orbit around the Moon, setting the scene for future crewed missions. ESA has already […]
Spaceflight’s Sherpa-LTC OTV prepares for launch
Spaceflight Inc. has now shipped the fully integrated Sherpa-LTC orbital transfer vehicle (OTV) and customer payload to Cape Canaveral to launch aboard an upcoming Starlink mission that is scheduled for September. The high-thrust, propulsive Sherpa will deploy from SpaceX’s Falcon 9, targeting a 310-kilometer circular orbit, before igniting and transporting an undisclosed, customer payload, that […]
UPDATE 1: Blue Origin’s NS-22 crewed mission successfully lifts off from West Texas
Blue Origin has successfully completed the firm’s sixth, human spaceflight and the 22nd flight for the New Shepard program. The crew achieved three historic firsts: Sara Sabry became the first person from Egypt to fly to space. Vanessa O’Brien became the first woman to reach extremes on land (Mt. Everest), sea (Challenger Deep), and air […]
Flying to the Moon is the South Korean Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter thanks to a SpaceX Falcon 9
On Thursday, August 4th at 7:08 p.m. ET, a SpaceX Falcon 9 launched KPLO to a ballistic lunar transfer orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. This was the sixth launch and landing of this booster, which previously supported the launch of Arabsat-6A, STP-2, COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation […]
UPDATE 4: ULA launches the USSF / SSC SBIRS GEO 6 satellite — SSC + Lockheed Martin’s additional mission info…
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying the Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit-6 (SBIRS GEO 6) mission for the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command lifted off on August 4that 6:29 a.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station — to date, ULA has launched 152 times with 100 […]