Launch

SpaceX is targeting Thursday, June 3, for Falcon 9’s launch of the 22nd Commercial Resupply Services mission (CRS-22). Liftoff is targeted for 1:29 p.m. EDT, or 17:29 UTC, from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. A backup ...

© Ben Pounds/The Oak Ridger In this December 2018 file photo by Ben Pounds, Peter Thornton, at right, a senior research scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, presents components of the RamSat satellite to students, including an aluminum framework. A ...

Virgin Orbit has revealed their next LauncherOne mission to space — called Tubular Bells, Part One — is set to take off in June. Carrying three customers from three different countries to LEO, Tubular Bells, Part One is another big ...

D-Orbit has announced the upcoming launch of WILD RIDE, the third mission of the company's proprietary space transportation vehicle ION Satellite Carrier. Scheduled to lift-off in June of 2021, the vehicle, called ION SCV Dauntless David, will deploy six satellites ...

Virgin Galactic completed their third spaceflight and the first ever spaceflight from Spaceport America (photo below), New Mexico, on Saturday, May 22 — that flight saw New Mexico become the third US state to launch humans into space. VSS Unity ...

On Friday, May 28, 2021, OneWeb launched 36 satellites to bring the company one step closer to completing their commercial service by the end of the year — this was OneWeb's seventh overall launch and the fourth in a five-launch ...

OneWeb’s seventh launch (ST32) of 36 made-in-Florida satellites from the Vostochny Cosmodrome will have a total duration of three hours and 51 minutes and will include nine separations, each of four satellites. Once all 36 satellites have been contacted and ...

On Thursday, May 27, OneWeb will launch an additional 36 broadband internet satellites aboard a Soyuz launch vehicle from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia. As a key supplier to OneWeb Satellites, RUAG Space built the satellite dispenser, which functions as ...

SpaceX was successful with the launch on Wednesday, in which the Falcon 9 launched 60 Starlink satellites from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Falcon 9’s first stage booster previously supported the Sentinel-6A ...

The next Arianespace mission is planned from Vostochny Cosmodrome with Soyuz on May 27 to deliver 36 satellites into orbit. By operating this seventh flight on behalf of OneWeb, Arianespace will bring the total fleet to 218 satellites in Low ...

Artistic rendition of the SBIRS GEO-5 satellite on-orbit. Image is courtesy of Lockheed Martin. Space Delta 4 Following a successful launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, the U.S. Space Force's Space Delta 4 operations team is now ...

The ULA Atlas V launch of the SBIRS GEO-5 push to orbit. A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying the Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (SBIRS GEO) Flight 5 mission for the U.S. Space Force’s Space ...

On May 15, 2021, Rocket Lab experienced an anomaly almost three minutes into the company’s 20th Electron launch. Following a successful lift-off from Launch Complex 1, Electron proceeded through a nominal first stage engine burn, stage separation, and stage 2 ...

The target for SpaceX: Saturday, May 15, for the company's follow-up Starlink mission, with the smallsats nestled aboard a Falcon 9 launch vehicle that lifted off from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. On board this ...

NASA Wallops has again postponed the launch of the Black Brant sounding rocket until Friday.   NASA tweeted at 6:32 p.m. Wednesday that the launch was called off in order to give technicians the opportunity to examine the rocket after it had ...

Rocket Lab is targeting no earlier than 10:00 am UTC, Saturday, May 15, for the launch of the 'Running Out Of Toes' mission. The mission is a dedicated launch deploying two EO satellites for BlackSky. For the first time this ...

The payload fairing with SBIRS GEO-5 encapsulated inside is mated to the Atlas V rocket, which will carry the mission into space. Photo is courtesy of ULA. The United States Space Force’s Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) GEO-5 satellite was ...

On May 4, the U.S. Space Force Space and Missile Systems Center’s Launch Enterprise Mission Manifest Office (MMO) has delivered two, fully tested and integrated, multi-manifest satellite vehicles, Technology Demonstration Orbiters (TDO-3 and TDO-4), to Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, ...

The SpaceX Starlink smallsat family constellation progression continues unabated, with the firm's latest launch occurring on Sunday, May 9, 2021, when, at 2:42 a.m. EDT, the firm's Falcon 9 launched 60 Starlink satellites from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at ...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX May 4th launch of 60 Starlink craft will be followed by another 60 on – or about – May 9th. There will likely be another record broken. The May 9th launch, subject to the usual weather and ...