At 2104 GMT on 29 June, a SpaceX Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket was successfully launched from Cape Canaveral, USA. It carried SES-22, a C-band telecommunications satellite, into a 35,627 x 310 km at 16.5 degrees inclination Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO) on its...
In a flurry of activity, SpaceX performed three separate Falcon 9 launches in less than three days. At 1609 GMT on 17 June, a SpaceX Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket carried 53 Starlink v1.5 Group 4-19 communications satellites to orbit for SpaceX itself. The mission...
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 from Cape Canaveral, USA at 2104 GMT on 8 June 2022. The launch vehicle carried Nilesat 301, an Egyptian telecommunication satellite on its way to its geostationary operational orbit. To save fuel for its later...
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral, USA at 1835 GMT on 25 May 2022. Transporter-5 is the fifth “Transporter” rideshare mission from SpaceX. The reusable B1061 first stage, on its eighth flight, successfully...
It has been a busy month for SpaceX and Tesla supremo Elon Musk. The world’s richest man grabbed headlines at least three times in May. His move to buy Twitter, driven by a well-known fondness for the social media platform and his support for “free speech”, came via a...
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket from Kennedy Space Station, Florida, USA at 1059 GMT on 18 May 2022. The vehicle was carrying 53 Starlink communications satellites (Group 4-18) as part of the constellation to an initial deployment orbit,...
