ESA’s Ariane 6 set to do the heavy lifting for Arianespace July 9 – SatNews Original Publication Date: 2024-07-07 00:00 Ariane 6 is Europe’s new heavy lift launch vehicle replacing its extremely successful predecessor, Ariane 5. Modular and agile, Ariane 6 has a reignitable upper stage allowing ...

UPDATE: Rocket Lab launches 35th Electron + sets new company record for fastest launch turnaround – SatNews Original Publication Date: 2023-03-24 00:00 Rocket Lab successfully launched their 35th Electron rocket from Mahia, New Zealand. The mission deployed two, multi-spectral, Gen-2 satellites ...

Falcon 9 launch from California adds 51 more satellites to Starlink network – Spaceflight Now Original Publication Date: 2023-02-17 00:00 The Starlink 2-5 mission began with liftoff at 11:12:20 a.m. PST (2:12:20 p.m. EST) A Falcon 9 rocket delivered 51 more Starlink internet satellites into ...

SpaceX performs Starship static-fire test Original Publication Date: 2023-02-09 22:11 SpaceX fires nearly all of the engines in the booster of its Starship launch vehicle. The test is one of the last technical milestones before the vehicle’s first orbital launch attempt. Company officials had ...

NASASpaceFlight.com India launches a new ocean monitoring satellite on Saturday morning. The PSLV rocket carried the EOS-06 spacecraft into a low Earth orbit. The mission, PSLV C54, lifted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at 11:56 local time (06:26 UTC) Commercial Archives SpaceX is set ...

SpaceX begins 2023 with Transporter-6 launch Original Publication Date: 2023-01-03 16:54 SpaceX launches 110 smallsats on the Transporter-6 dedicated smallsat rideshare mission. The rocket’s first stage landed back at the Cape’s Landing Zone 1 eight and a half minutes after liftoff. The largest ...

Revenue shortfall causes layoffs and delays at Satellogic Original Publication Date: 2023-01-03 00:40 Satellogic has slashed revenue projections, resulting in layoffs. The company recorded $2.4 million in revenue in the first half of the year. Satellogic signed a contract with SpaceX in May ...

NASA loses contact with ICON spacecraft Original Publication Date: 2022-12-08 13:02 NASA's Ionospheric Connection Explorer has not communicated with ground stations since Nov. 25. Engineers believe the problem is with the spacecraft’s avionics or communications subsystems. NASA has ruled out ...

Orion swings by the moon on its way back to Earth Original Publication Date: 2022-12-06 10:14 NASA's Orion spacecraft flew by the moon for a second and final time Dec. 5. The maneuver sets up the spacecraft for a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean in six days. Orion, which launched nearly three ...

U.S. Space Force chief: The use of space technology in Ukraine ‘is what we can expect in the future’ Original Publication Date: 2022-12-04 16:41 Gen. B. Chance Saltzman is chief of space operations of the U.S. Space Force. He says the value of space “has been proven out,” and space is “clearly ...