Esrange Space Center in northern Sweden has resumed Swedish Space Center rocket activities after the fire that damaged the launch site in late August — just three months after the […]
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The First, Fully U.S.-Manufactured Fairing From RUAG Space Ready For ULA’s Atlas V STP-3 Launch
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket is, as of this writing, scheduled to launch a U.S. defense satellite into space on December 6 and this will be the […]
UPDATE 3: The Arianespace VS26 Mission Launches Successfully Via A Soyuz Rocket
Arianespace’s 13th launch of 2021 via the 8th Soyuz mission of the year successfully launched the Galileo FOC 23-24 satellite passengers for the European Space Agency (ESA) into Medium Earth […]
Forty-Eight SpaceX Starlinks Successfully Soar To Space
On Thursday, December 2, at 6:12 p.m., EST, a SpaceX Falcon 9 launched 48 Starlink satellites and two BlackSky spacecraft to orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape […]
Skykraft Air Traffic Management Constellation To Launch Aboard The SpaceX Transporter-5 Mission In Mid-2022
Skykraft and SpaceX have agreed to a follow-on to the Transporter-5 launch for Skykraft’s Air Traffic Management constellation. The second tranche of Air Traffic Management satellites will fly on SpaceX’s […]
China Launches New Satellite For Earth Observation
China launched a new Gaofen-3 02 remote-sensing satellite aboard a Long March-4C carrier rocket from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 7:45 a.m. on Tuesday. The Earth-observation satellite […]
RUAG Space Packs Product Into Galileo NavSats That Are Set To Launch This Week
On Thursday, December 2 (CET), another two Galileo navigation satellites will be launched by Arianespace from Kourou in French Guiana aboard a Soyuz rocket. This will raise the number of […]
NASA’s Double Asteroid DART Mission Launched By SpaceX
NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), the world’s first full-scale mission to test technology for defending Earth against potential asteroid or comet hazards, launched on Wednesday, November 24, at 1:21 […]
Space Systems Command’s STP-3 Satellites Now Encapsulated Aboard ULA’s Atlas V 551 Launch Vehicle At Cape Canaveral AFS
Space Systems Command’s Space Test Program (STP)-3 integrated payload stack, which contains the STP Satellite (STPSat)-6 and the Long Duration Propulsive Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) Secondary Payload Adapter (ESPA), or LDPE-1 […]
Astra’s Rocket 3.3’s Fourth Launch Attempt Is Successful From Kodiak Island, Alaska
Astra Space, Inc. (“Astra”) (Nasdaq: ASTR) successfully completed their first, commercial, orbital launch for the United States Space Force (USSF) on November 19, 2021, PST. The launch, STP-27AD2, was conducted […]