SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA at 0420 GMT on 28 November 2023. The launch vehicle was carrying Starlink Group 6-30, a total of 23 v2 Mini Starlink satellites for the Starlink second-generation constellation....
A Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket launched from Vandenberg, California, USA, on 20 November 2023. The pad used was SLC-4E. Aboard the launch were 22 Starlink v2 Mini bus satellites as Starlink Group 7-7. The reusable first stage B1063 on its 15th flight was...
While the Starship second launch (IFT-2) from Boca Chica, Texas, on 18 November, gained all the headlines, earlier the same day a more mundane SpaceX launch took place from Pad 40 in Cape Canaveral at 0505 GMT. A Falcon 9v1.2 Block 5 launched the Starlink Group 6-28...
Starship IFT-2’s test flight was a highly anticipated event as it marked the first follow-up to the launch vehicle’s maiden flight failure earlier in the year. There were long delays as SpaceX had to prove that the rocket was safe to fly. This was no easy task after...
A Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket launched the Transporter-9 multi-satellite rideshare mission from the Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, USA, at 1849 GMT on11 November 2023. The reusable first stage, B1071 on its 12th flight, landed back on Californian land at...
A Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket launched a pair of O3B mPOWER communications satellites into orbit as the fifth and sixth of a block of 11 high-throughput communications satellites for a new generation O3B Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) constellation, ordered from Boeing....
