Cygnus spacecraft suffers glitches after launch
Original Publication Date: 2024-08-04 21:23
Falcon 9 lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 11:02 a.m. Eastern. Cygnus spacecraft separating from Falcon's upper stage nearly 15 minutes after liftoff. Cygnus carrying 3,857 kilograms of cargo, including 1,560 kilograms of vehicle hardware.
Synspective’s 5th SAR Satellite reaches its target orbit + spreads its wings – SatNews
Original Publication Date: 2024-08-05 00:00
SAR satellite data and solutions provider Synspective launches fifth StriX SAR smallsat. Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket launched from New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula. This fifth satellite operates in an inclined orbit. By operating from orbit, capturing images can be concentrated in densely populated areas.
SpaceX sends off NASA’s Cygnus resupply mission on Sunday to the ISS during a break in Florida’s weather – SatNews
Original Publication Date: 2024-08-04 00:00
SpaceX was able to work with a window of opportunity between some challenging Florida weather on Sunday, August 4. The instantaneous launch window was at 11:02 a.m. ET. With a liftoff of its Falcon 9 rocket Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft began its approximately 40-hour journey to the orbiting outpost.
SpaceX launches 23 Starlink smallsats on a foggy Sunday California morn – SatNews
Original Publication Date: 2024-08-04 00:00
Photo captured from Vandenberg in California on foggy Sunday, August 4, by Satnews from SpaceX’s video stream. On Sunday, August 4 at 12:24 a.m. PT, Falcon 9 launched 23 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit. This was the sixth flight for the first stage booster supporting this mission.
Science and supplies fly on Falcon 9, Cygnus NG-21
Original Publication Date: 2024-08-03 13:49
The Northrop Grumman Cygnus NG-21 spacecraft will deliver cargo to the International Space Station (ISS) The CRS NG-21 mission dodged the weather that scrubbed it on Saturday, with a Sunday lift off on a Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral. The NG-21 mission marks the second of three Cygnus cargo flights that will launch aboard SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets, having previously used the now-retired Antares 230+ launch vehicle as its main method of travel.