Launch

On Tuesday, November 17, Arianespace announced the loss of the Vega VV17 mission, which was carrying two payloads, SEOSAT-Ingenio, an Earth-science observation satellite for the European Space Agency (ESA), on behalf of Spain's Center for Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI), ...

HawkEye 360 Inc. has shipped their second cluster of satellites to the launch site at Cape Canaveral, Florida — the satellites are scheduled to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 no earlier than January 2021 as part of Spaceflight Inc.’s ...

SpaceX is now targeting Saturday, December 19, for launch of the NROL-108 mission from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Saturday’s three-hour launch window opens at 9:00 a.m. EST, or 14:00 UTC, and closes at 12:00 p.m ...

Rocket Lab has successfully launched their 17th Electron mission, deploying the first spacecraft to orbit for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite data and solutions provider Synspective. ‘The Owl’s Night Begins’ launched from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand’s ...

On Sunday, December 13, at 12:30 p.m. EST, a Falcon 9 launched the SXM-7 mission from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida — this was SpaceX's 25th mission in 2020. This mission marked the ...

The force that sends a rocket into space is amazing, and Aerojet Rocketdyne did just that. Aerojet Rocketdyne powered the recent successful launch of a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy rocket yesterday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station ...

Arianespace Soyuz liftoff of Flight VS24. The launcher for Arianespace’s next Soyuz flight from French Guiana is taking shape inside the Spaceport’s MIK integration building. One of the first stage boosters for Flight VS25’s Soyuz is “airborne” inside the Spaceport’s ...

Artistic renditon of Relativity's Terran 1 rocket launching from Cape Canaveral. Image is courtesy of the company. Supporting a rideshare manifest with a mix of small and large satellites, TriSept Corporation has selected Relativity Space for a full mission aboard ...

This morning's notification indicated a delay of ULA's Delta IV Heavy rocket on a mission for the National Reconnaissance Office. To recap, the United launch Alliance rocket departed Space Launch Complex-37 at 8:09 p.m. EST on its mission for the ...

Artistic rendition of Dawn Aerospace's M-II Aurora in-flight. Image is courtesy of the company. The New Zealand Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has granted Dawn Aerospace an Unmanned Aircraft Operator Certificate to fly a suborbital spaceplane from a conventional airport. Authorized ...

The Gateway to Space facility at Spaceport America is home to Virgin Galactic's terminal and hangar. The New Mexico Spaceport Authority has started preparations ahead of Virgin Galactic’s first powered spaceflight from Spaceport America — the flight window will open ...

Arianespace CEO Stéphane Israël and Philippe Pham, Senior Vice President - Head of Earth Observation, Navigation and Science, at Airbus, have announced that the two companies have signed the launch contract for the CO3D constellation of Earth Observation (EO) smallsats ...

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has given Sateliot the green light to start coordinating the frequencies of its smallsat constellation with telecoms operators. Sateliot is thereby taking a further step toward their goal of democratizing the Internet of Things (IOT) ...

On Tuesday, November 24, at 9:13 p.m. EST, SpaceX launched its 16th Starlink mission from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, pushing 60 smallsats to orbit via the firm's Falcon 9 launch vehicle. The Falcon ...

At 18:17 (09:17 US Pacific time) on November 21, 2020, the Copernicus Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich ocean-monitoring satellite was successfully launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Vandenberg Air Force base in California. The mission will continue the unbroken, ...

Rocket Lab has successfully launched their 16th Electron mission and deployed 30 small satellites to orbit, the largest number of satellites deployed by Electron to date on a single mission. The ‘Return to Sender’ mission also saw Rocket Lab complete ...

Voyager Space Holdings, Inc. (Voyager) has announced the firm's intent to acquire The Launch Company, subject to customary closing conditions. The Launch Company specializes in developing standardized hardware, ground support equipment, and processes to help next generation space companies gain ...

Hypernova Space Technologies is ready to plan the launch of their cubesat and has booked EnduroSat’s Shared Satellite Service to fly their first thruster mission in space. The mission is flying on a 6U CubeSat platform scheduled to launch on ...

Astroscale Holdings Inc. (“Astroscale”) has announced that the firm's End-of-Life Services by Astroscale-demonstration (ELSA-d) mission will launch on a Soyuz rocket operated by GK Launch Services from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, in March of 2021. Artistic rendition of ELSA-d approaching a ...

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, with astronauts Mike Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker and Soichi aboard the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft, blasts off from NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A. Photo credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky It was a picture perfect launch ...