Speedcast, a communications and IT services provider, has partnered with Hurtigruten Expeditions to complete fleetwide implementation of SpaceX’s Starlink Low Earth Orbit (LEO) broadband connectivity. Hurtigruten Expeditions, a major expedition […]
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UPDATE 3: SpaceX’s Success as Intelsat’s G-33/G-34 mission launches
UPDATE 3 On Saturday, October 8 at 7:05 p.m. ET, SpaceX‘s Falcon 9 launched the Intelsat G-33/G-34 mission to a geosynchronous transfer orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at […]
Iridium announces their 9th SpaceX launch to occur in mid-2023
Iridium Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: IRDM) has reached an agreement with SpaceX to launch as many as five of the company’s remaining, ground spare satellites from the Iridium® NEXT program, on […]
SpaceX launches another 51 Starlinks to orbit aboard a Falcon 9
On Sunday, September 4 at 10:09 p.m. ET, SpaceX launched 51 Starlink satellites and Spaceflight’s Sherpa-LTC, an orbital transfer vehicle (OTV), to orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at […]
SpaceX’s Starlinks sent soaring on Falcon 9’s second flight and its heaviest payload ever launched
On Saturday, August 27 at 11:41 p.m. ET, SpaceX launched 54 Starlink satellites from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. This was the […]
US Air Force awards $1.9m Starlink deal to connect military bases in Europe and Africa
SpaceX wins small contract after losing out on $1bn in FCC funding. The US Air Force Special Operations Command has awarded SpaceX a $1.9 million contract to trial Starlink Internet […]
Nanoracks’ multiple customer payloads launched on the SpaceX CRS-25 mission
Nanoracks had several payloads that launched on the SpaceX CRS-25 (SpX-25) mission in July of 2022 — some of these payloads have been in the works for three years. These […]
Flying to the Moon is the South Korean Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter thanks to a SpaceX Falcon 9
On Thursday, August 4th at 7:08 p.m. ET, a SpaceX Falcon 9 launched KPLO to a ballistic lunar transfer orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space […]
NASA’s ready to launch SpaceX’s Dragon to ISS to research cells, soil, climate and weather systems
Other investigations include studying the aging of immune cells and the potential to reverse those effects during postflight recovery, a CubeSat that will monitor cloud top and ocean surface temperatures […]
A SpaceX Falcon 9 frees Globalstar’s FM15 spare satellite successfully from Earth to orbit
On Sunday, June 19, at 12:27 a.m., ET, a SpaceX Falcon 9 launched the Globalstar FM15 satellite to LEO from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force […]