SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 from Vandenberg, California, at 1926 GMT on 17 March. The vehicle was carrying 52 satellites of Starlink Group 2-8 for SpaceX’s own low Earth orbit communications satellite constellation. The B1071 first stage, on its eighth...
China successfully launched a Chinese Long March 3B/E rocket carrying the a new geostationary Earth observation satellite, Gaofen-13 02. The lift off from Xichang Satellite Lunch Centre took place at 0833 GMT on 17 March. Officially, Gaofen-13 02 will be used for...
Spacecraft manufacturer Astranis has received a construction order from Apco Networks, a Mexican telecoms firm, for a pair of small communications satellites. The units, which weigh in at circa 400 kg and will use electric propulsion, will be operated in geostationary...
Rocket Lab successfully launched its Electron rocket and deployed two Capella Space radar imaging satellites into low Earth orbit (LEO). The vehicle lifted off from the company’s launch site on Wallops Island, Virginia, at 22:38 GMT on 16 March, five days after its...
A Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 successfully launched the Dragon CRS-27 cargo craft on its International Space Station (ISS) resupply flight for NASA. The launch took place at 0030 GMT on 15 March from the former Space Shuttle and Saturn V pad LC-39A at the Kennedy Space...
For the Tuesday opening keynote talk at the SATELLITE 2023 show in Washington DC, Dave Limp, the Senior Vice President of devices & services at Project Kuiper, gave attendees an update on the progress of the Amazon LEO constellation. He confirmed that the first...
