The dust had barely settled from the fireworks and celebrations of the new year, before launch vehicles were being launched again. Keep up with the latest launches in January on this page, as we will regularly update our tracker: 1 January 2024...
SpaceX conducted two Starlink launches over the weekend of 21/22 October 2023. The first took place at 0823 GMT on 21 October and saw a Falcon 9 rocket lift-off from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, and carry 21 Starlink sats into LEO. These satellites formed...
Launching at 0937 GMT on 22 August, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried 21 satellites into LEO. The mission took place from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, USA, and marked the first as part of the Starlink constellation’s “Group 7”. These 21...
The SDA announced on 21 August that it had awarded Tranche 2 contracts for 72 satellites (36 each) to Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman. These satellites will be for its Transport Layer data-relay constellation. The contractors will build and operate their...
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral, USA at 0336 GMT on 17 August. The vehicle was carrying Starlink Group 6-10, a total of 22 second-generation Starlink satellites. The B1067 first stage landed on the drone barge “A Shortfall of Gravitas”...
Telesat’s Lightspeed constellation is fully financed after the Canadian company awarded MDA with a contract to build 198 satellites; in the process eschewing Thales Alenia Space and saving the satellite operator a cool US$2 billion. The new contract with MDA, a...
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