Launch

Once again, SpaceX is scrubbing its launch on Friday. Here's the statement from SpaceX. SpaceX is standing down from the launch attempt of its thirteenth Starlink mission due to severe weather in the recovery area, which is likely to persist ...

Intelsat has contracted Arianespace for the launch of three, C-band satellites, on Ariane 5 and Ariane 6. Arianespace and Intelsat have just signed an agreement for two launches of three satellites — Galaxy 35, Galaxy 36 and Galaxy 37 — ...

Kleos Space S.A. (ASX:KSS, Frankfurt:KS1) has provided an update on the Kleos Scouting Mission, launching on the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) PSLV-C49 Mission from Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC), Sriharikota Range in India (SHAR). The Company has been informed ...

Another launch for SpaceX is planned for Thursday, September 17, at 2:19 p.m. EDT, 18:19 UTC, for launch of its thirteenth Starlink mission. The company will launch 60 Starlink satellites to orbit. Falcon 9 will lift off from Launch Complex ...

Image of the Dorado rocket. Equatorial Space Systems has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with India’s Space Development Nexus-SDNx for suborbital launch services using the company’s Dorado rocket. The MOU is the first foray of Equatorial Space into the ...

NetSat integration into the upper stage. Photo is courtesy of Exolaunch. The Würzburg Center for Telematics and Exolaunch now have a launch agreement for a NetSat smallsat formation — under the launch agreement, Exolaunch will coordinate all launcher related activities, ...

Artistic rendition of MUIRA 5 is courtesy of PLD Space. PLD Space has announced the closure of further financing through a tie-up with independent financial advisory and alternative asset management group Arcano Partners — this 7 million euros venture will ...

China successfully sent nine Jilin-1 Gaofen 03-1 imaging smallsats into planned orbit from the Yellow Sea on Tuesday, September 15, 2020. The nine satellites blasted off atop a Long March-11 carrier rocket, China's first sea-launched rocket, at 9:23 a.m. (Beijing ...

Astra launched their first orbital rocket on Friday, September 11, from a spaceport located in southern Alaska on Kodiak Island. Rocket 3.1 began to climb straight into the sky before the launch vehicle began to start swaying back and forth ...

Optical remote-sensing satellite Jilin-1 Gaofen 02C, which was launched aboard the Kuaizhou-1A carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 13:02 p.m. (Beijing time) on Saturday, September 12, failed to enter the preset orbit. Abnormal performance ...

Northrop Grumman's NG-14 Cygnus spacecraft has been named after former astronaut Kalpana Chawla. The company’s tradition is to name each Cygnus after an individual who has played a pivotal role in human spaceflight. Chawla was selected in honor of her ...

"Eris" orbital rocket launch. Image is courtesy of Gilmour Space. Gilmour Space Technologies has secured the first Australian customer for the firm's maiden Eris rocket launch in 2022 — Space Machines Company has contracted to launch a 35 kg spacecraft ...

China launched a new optical, remote-sensing satellite from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern Shanxi Province on Monday, September 7, 2020. The Gaofen-11 02 satellite was launched by a Long March-4B rocket at 1:57 p.m. (Beijing Time), according to ...

Artistic rendition of Kepler's TARS smallsat on-orbit. Kepler’s LEO constellation has expanded with the successful launch of the company's third satellite — the satellite, internally referred to as TARS, was launched onboard the Arianespace Vega SSMS (Small Spacecraft Mission Service) ...

Satellogic has launched their new spacecraft from the Guiana Space Center via a launch procured by Spaceflight, Inc. — the satellite, a NewSat Mark IV, was delivered to a SSO LEO on a Vega rocket from Arianespace at 1:51am UTC ...

An Arianespace Vega rocket successfully carried two smallsats built by Space Flight Laboratory into space from the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana, South America. (Credit: Arianespace) Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) is celebrating the successful launch and deployment of the ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 lifted off from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida the Kennedy Space Center at 8:46 a.m. Thursday, September 3, deploying a set of approximately 60 Starlink broadband satellites 15 minutes later. Earlier this ...

Launch Complex 2Wallops Island, Virginia, USA Rocket Lab has been granted, a five-year Launch Operator License by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for Electron missions from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2. This is a major milestone as the license enables ...

New Zealand is celebrating the successful Rocket Lab launch of its 14th Electron mission that deployed a single microsatellite for Capella Space. The mission was Rocket Lab’s fourth this year and brings the company’s total number of satellites deployed to ...

Having been delayed since March of 2020, and using a Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket with a 3X, previous flight completion record, SpaceX has now successfully launched — from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida — the SAOCOM-1B Earth ...