SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 lanch vehicle carrying 50 Starlink satellites at 1712 GMT, 25 February from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, USA. The spacecraft, collectively dubbed Group 4-11, were carried up to a deployment orbit of...
Launching at 1444 GMT on 21 February a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has carried 46 Starlink satellites to LEO (Low Earth Orbit). The mission took place from Cape Canaveral, the USA, and was launched into a south-easterly direction. The launch carried three satellites fewer...
Jared Isaacman, the US billionaire who recently funded a part-charity human space mission called Inspiration4 which flew into orbit on a Falcon 9-launched Crew Dragon in September 2021, is planning to fund three more private human missions, dubbed Polaris. The first...
SpaceX has admitted a new blow to its Starlink low Earth orbit-based communications satellite constellation. There were already doubts about the reliability of the Starlink V1.0 satellites (about a quarter of the 60 satellites on a Falcon 9 launch in March last year...
A Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket launched 49 satellites to their orbit m SpaceX’s leased launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. Lift off of the flight Starlink Group 4-7 was at 1813 GMT on 3 February 2022. The satellites were injected into a...
The Vandenberg launch site in California hosted the launch of yet another secret satellite payload for the US National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). This time the mission was dubbed NRO L-87 and it was launched by a SpaceX Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 launch vehicle at 2027...
