AST SpaceMobile (AST), a would-be supplier of direct-to-consumer cellular telephony from space, has told the FCC that it will have 243 of its BlueBird satellites in orbit by the end […]
Mission Payloads
Firefly Aerospace now plans a Sunday launch of Lockheed Martin’s FLTA006 Message in a Booster mission
Firefly Aerospace’s launch of Lockheed Martin’s FLTA006 has been scheduled for Sunday, April 27th, at 6:37 AM – 8:17 AM PDT from Vandenberg. This is the sixth flight of the […]
ULA plans Amazon Project Kuiper’s launch on Monday
The next date for ULA’s launch of Project Kuiper now is scheduled for Monday, April 14 from 4:00 PM to 8:34 PM ET. Liftoff of the Kuiper 1 mission will […]
Rocket Lab’s launch of OroraTech’s ‘Finding Hot Wildfires Near You’ will help tackle wildfires around the world
Right on time at 11:30 a.m. EST (1530 GMT) on March 26, from Rocket Lab’s Pad B at Launch Complex 1, Mahia base in New Zealand, the 59-foot (18-meter), three-stage […]
SpaceX launches Transporter-13 rideshare mission that includes 74 payloads
On Friday, March 14 at 11:43 p.m. PT, SpaceX launched the Transporter-13 mission to orbit from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Photos by […]
IM-2 lands on the Moon but its status is uncertain
After a successful launch last week aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 mission landed on the Moon on March 6 shortly after 11:30 a.m. EST. The craft […]
Blue Origin earns another ‘feather in their cap’ with success of NS-29 mission launch
Blue Origin successfully completed its 29th New Shepard flight and 14th payload mission today from Launch Site One in West Texas. The payloads experienced roughly two minutes of lunar gravity forces. The […]
Blue Origin’s New Shepard NS-29 now moved to Tuesday
Another launch day has been announced by Blue Origin regarding the much delayed and scrubbed New Shepard NS-29 mission. The new date is now Tuesday, February 4 at 7:30 am […]
Blue Origin says Go! to New Shepard’s NS-29 Tuesday mission
So far, so good, for tomorrow’s New Shepard NS-29 launch from West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch. The forecast calls for a temperature of 41°F, overcast clouds, 100% cloud […]
SpaceX’s bittersweet seventh flight test, the loss of Starship but successful catch of booster
All began smoothly as SpaceX’s Starship tore through the skies from Boca Chica, Texas with 33 out of 33 engines working to send it on it’s seventh flight test. All […]