by Matt Wilson | Mar 4, 2021 | commercial launch services, Constellation, Launches, Satellites, Seradata News, SpaceX
On 4 March 2021 at 0824 GMT SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 vehicle from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, carrying the long-delayed seventeenth batch of v1.0 Starlink satellites. On-board the flight were 60 Starlinks which were released into a sub-300 km...
by David Todd | Mar 4, 2021 | Launches, Reliability Info, Seradata News, SpaceX
Having had two explosive landing attempt failures with the SpaceX Starship prototypes SN8 and SN9 at its Boca Chica launch and landing base in Texas, SpaceX engineer and commentator John Inspruker tempted fate on 3 February for the SN10 test flight by saying...
by Matt Wilson | Feb 16, 2021 | commercial launch services, Launches, Satellites, Seradata News, SpaceX
Lifting off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 0359 GMT on 16 February, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried the second Starlink launch of the month into LEO. The 60 Starlink satellites were deployed one hour five minutes into the launch into the correct orbit. However, it...
by David Todd | Feb 10, 2021 | International Space Station, NASA, Seradata News, SpaceX
Filled with trash, Russian cargo craft Progress MS-15 (ISS-76P) undocked from the International Space Station’s (ISS) Pirs module at 0521 GMT on 9 February. Just over three hours later it fired its engines in a deorbit burn at 0830 GMT. The spacecraft made a...
by David Todd | Feb 10, 2021 | exploration, Launches, NASA, SpaceX
NASA has selected the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket to provide launch services for the agency’s Power and Propulsion Element (PPE) and Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO), the foundation elements of the Lunar space station dubbed Gateway. After integration on Earth,...
by Matt Wilson | Feb 5, 2021 | NASA, Satellites, Seradata News, SpaceX
A NASA announcement on 4 February 2021 outlines the award of the SPHEREx launch contract to SpaceX. SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) is a NASA medium-class explorer mission planned for launch in June...
