The Ariane 5 rocket has had its first actual launch failure after 82 successful flights performed over 15 years. Following an apparently successful lift-off from the Kourou launch site at 1920 GMT on 25 January 2017, the Ariane 5 ECA flight VA241, carrying SES-14 and...
After the failure of its maiden launch, Rocket Lab’s Electron light launch vehicle has successfully reached orbit for the first time. The rocket lifted-off from its launch site on the Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand, at 0143 GMT. It was carrying three commercial...
An Atlas V rocket operated by the United Launch Alliance on mission AV-076 put the SBIRS GEO-4 early warning/missile warning satellite on behalf of the US Air Force into orbit on 20 January 2018. The Atlas V 411 rocket lifted off at 0048 GMT from its launch pad at...
Launching from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, India, an ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) PSLV-XL medium-lift launch vehicle has carried 31 spacecraft into Low Earth Orbit (LEO). The mission lifted-off at 0358 GMT and it’s primary payload...
The Korean Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter – KPLO – has been given a launch on a Falcon 9. The Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) selected SpaceX to launch the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO) in 2020. In a separate development, the CHEOPS...
The SpaceX team had another Falcon 9 launch success using a pre-used first stage on a launch vehicle. The launch which occurred at 1536 GMT on 15 December 2017 marked a return to the SLC-40 launch pad in Cape Canaveral after the pad was damaged during a prelaunch...
