Launch provider Virgin Orbit has disclosed the probable cause of the failure that destroyed the high-profile “Start Me Up” launch and its nine small payloads: a dislodged fuel filter. The Cosmic Girl carrier aircraft took off for the first orbital attempt from the UK...
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA at 0510 GMT on 12 February. The vehicle was carrying 55 Starlink Gen2 (Generation 2) satellites of Group 5-4 which were placed into an initial low Earth orbit. They will...
After a few days of weather related delays, a SpaceX Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket was successfully launched from Cape Canaveral, on the coast of Florida, USA at 0132 GMT on 7 February 2022. Aboard was the communications satellite Amazonas Nexus which was being...
A Proton-M/Block DM-03 launch vehicle was successfully launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome, near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan at 0912 GMT on 5 February 2023. It carried the Elektro-L N4, a Russian geostationary weather satellite. It is the Fourth Elektro-L satellite to be...
An investigation by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) into the failure of the maiden flight of its latest rocket, the SSLV, has revealed that an exceptional shock during separation compromised the guidance system. The SSLV-D1 launch seemed to go well with...
At 0758 GMT on 2 February 2023 a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 successfully launched 53 Starlink Gen2 satellites (Group 5-3) from LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA.Their intended eventual operational orbit once they have raised themselves from their initial...
