Using the combined 5.1 million lbf thrust of 27 Merlin 1D engines, the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lifted off from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Centre near Cape Canaveral, Florida, on 25 June. It was a big success for its clients but had mixed results for SpaceX in its...
The month of June registered some significant departures from the International Space Station (ISS) during June. First to leave was the DRAGON CRS-17 cargo spacecraft which was unberthed at 1235 GMT on 3 June 2019. It formally undocked from the ISS at 1601 GMT when...
On 20 June 2019, the European Spaceport, French Guiana, saw the second Ariane 5 of the year which, following lift-off at 2143 GMT, proceeded to place two communications satellites into their planned Geostationary Transfer Orbits (GTO). The two customers utilising the...
While Space X originally announced that all 60 Starlink communications satellites launched by a Falcon 9 on 24 May were in contact with ground control and that all had deployed their solar arrays and their electric propulsion systems were operational. However, on 28...
At 1417 GMT on 12 June, the Canadian three-satellite Radarsat Constellation Mission (RCM) – was launched by a Falcon 9v1.2r Block 5 into a sun-synchronous low Earth orbit of circa 604 x 584 km at an inclination of 97.4 degrees relative to the equator. The...
A Long March 11 (CZ-11) rocket was launched from a barge stationed in the Yellow Sea at 0406 GMT on 5 June. On board were seven satellites, including the Jilin-1 03A Earth observation satellite with an optical resolution of 1.13 m, which were launched into 543 x 528...
