On Wednesday, July 13 at 10:13 a.m., local time in Kourou, French Guiana, the first Vega C — the new European launcher designed and manufactured by AVIO — was successfully […]
Launch
Topping off the new Vega-C rocket on its maiden flight is a freshly-designed fairing developed by Beyond Gravity
On Wednesday, July 13th, the new, medium-lift, European Vega-C rocket lifted off from the European spaceport in Kourou for its inaugural flight. The rocket launched the “LARES 2” Laser Relativity […]
China dispatches their Tianlian II-03 data relay satellite to GEO
China launched a new data relay satellite into orbit from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China’s Sichuan Province on Wednesday, July 13th. The Tianlian II-03 satellite was launched […]
NASA’s EMIT mission + a smallsat to ride to orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 on July 14th
NASA and SpaceX are targeting 8:44 p.m., EDT, Thursday, July 14th, to launch the agency’s next investigation to monitor climate change to the International Space Station. The mission — NASA’s […]
UPDATE: A SpaceX Falcon 9 moves 46 Starlinks to orbit from Vandenberg Space Force Base
SpaceX, on Sunday, July 10th, launched a Falcon 9 with a payload of 46 Starlink satellites to LEO from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base […]
SpaceX’s 53 Starlink satellites are on their way
SpaceX‘s Falcon 9 successfully launched 53 Starlink satellites to LEO from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. This was the 13th flight for […]
Digantara successfully launches their space-based weather monitoring system
Digantara has successfully launched the world’s first, commercial, space-based space weather monitoring system, ROBI (ROBust Integrating proton fluence meter). The system launched into LEO on June 30, 2022, at 1800 […]
Rocket Lab’s two upcoming smallsat Launch Responsive Missions 10 days apart for National Reconnaissance Office
These twin missions will be a demonstration of responsive launch under NRO’s Rapid Acquisition of a Small Rocket (RASR) contract for launching small satellite through a streamlined, commercial approach, and […]
UPDATE 6: Lunar Transfer Orbit achieved by Rocket Lab for the NASA CAPSTONE smallsat — 1st deep space mission success for the company
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or “the Company”) has successfully deployed a pathfinding satellite for NASA, setting it on a course to the Moon. This deployment marks […]
UPDATE 3: Via an Atlas V 541 rocket, ULA advances the USSF-12 mission to GEO + Northrop Grumman’s ESPAStar™ satellite
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V 541 rocket has accomplished the launch of the USSF-12 mission for the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC). The USSF-12 features two […]