SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral, USA at 1420 GMT on 17 July 2022. The vehicle was carrying 53 Starlink satellites as part of the Group 4-22 set for the Starlink constellation. The B1051 reusable first stage, flying on...
A Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket was successfully launched from the Cape Canaveral launch site on the coast of Florida at 0044 GMT on 15 July 2022. It was launching the Dragon CRS-25 freighter spacecraft mission, aka SpX-25 (Dragon C208 reusable craft on its third...
After a short technical delay, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) new Vega-C rocket, operated by Arianespace, was successfully launched at 1313 GMT on 13 July from Guiana Space Centre, Kourou. The primary payload, Lares 2, a laser reflectivity satellite to test...
Amid foggy weather a Falcon 9 carrying 46 Starlink satellites (Starlink v1.5 Group 3-1) was successfully launched by SpaceX from Vandenberg, USA, on 11 July. Following the launch the B1063 first stage successfully landed on the drone barge, named “Of Course I Still...
A Russian Soyuz 2-1B Fregat-M vehicle successfully launched the Glonass K1-4 navigation satellite from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Northern Russia at 0918 GMT on 7 June. Glonass K1-4 (aka Glonass K16L) is the fourth Glonass-K upgraded Russian navigation spacecraft...
Airbus US Space and Defense has been picked to provide 42 satellite bus platforms to Northrop Grumman for the US Space Development Agency’s (SDA) Tranche 1 Transport Layer (T1TL) constellation. T1TL is a low Earth orbit (LEO) mesh network of small satellites, which...