In a press meeting at the Satellite 2022 conference, Hughes President and CEO Pradman Kaul confirmed that SpaceX would be launching its 500 Gbps Jupiter 3 satellite later this year. The company had previously signed a launch contract in late-2020 but at that time...
SpaceX has ridden to the rescue of low Earth orbit satellite operator OneWeb after it lost its Soyuz rides for its satellites during a series of tit-for-tat actions following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. OneWeb secured Falcon 9 launches for the satellites required to...
At 04.42 on 19 March a SpaceX Falcon 91.2FT Block 5 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida USA. It was carrying another set of 53 Starlink satellites – this one dubbed Group 4-12 to low Earth Orbit. The first stage B1051 (on its 12th...
At 0709 GMT on 17 March 2022, a Long March 4C (CZ-4C) rocket was launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Centre China. It was carrying Yaogan 34-02. This is officially a remote sensing/Earth observation satellite. The spacecraft is built by SAST. However, analysts are...
In a return to flight following a February launch failure, an Astra Space Rocket 3.3 (Astra Rocket 3.3) on flight LV0009 was launched from the Pacific Space Complex in Kodiak Island, Alaska, at 1622 GMT on 15 March. As part of its contracted mission “Astra...
The Russian government’s official policy on its invasion of Ukraine – and its lack of success – seems to be “Don’t mention the War!”. Yet despite media restrictions most of Russia’s public realises that something is going on. Most obviously, Western commercial...
