SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket from the SLC-4E pad at Vandenberg, California, USA at 0657 GMT on 12 September 2023. The vehicle was carrying Starlink Group 7-2, a total of 21 v2 Mini communications satellites for the Starlink...
Satellite operator Thaicom Plc has ordered a fully reconfigurable high throughput communications satellite – as yet unnamed – from Airbus Defence and Space. It will use the software-defined OneSat platform/bus design from Airbus. The communications...
SpaceX has agreed to launch satellites for the Lightspeed constellation, the brainchild of its major competitor Telesat. The private company founded by Elon Musk, which dominates the commercial space scene, had agreed to provide 14 launches for Telesat on its Falcon...
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA at 0312 GMT on 9 September 2023. The launch vehicle was carrying Starlink Group 6-14, a total of 22 v2 Mini Starlink satellites for the second generation (GEN 2) Starlink...
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket (Atlas V 551 (RL10C-1-1)/GEM-63) was launched at 1247 GMT on 10 September 2022 on flight number AV 551 from Cape Canaveral SLC-41. The mission is a – flight number AV-102, carrying the secret NRO L-107 mission for...
A Japanese H-2A rocket flying in its 202 configuration has carried two satellites, a space telescope and a Lunar lander, into orbit. The mission lifted-off from the Tanegashima Space Center, southern Japan, at 2342 GMT on 6 September. The larger payload...