Hotbird 13G, the sister communications satellite to Hotbird 13F, has been successfully launched by a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket flying out of Cape Canaveral, Florida. The launch took place at 0522 GMT on 3 November 2022. The Eurostar NEO bus spacecraft was built by...
One of the most powerful rockets in the world, a Falcon Heavy Block 5 (px), whose lift off consisted of a main stage with nine Merlin engines firing, supported by two booster rockets, also each with nine Merlin engines firing, was launched from from the Launch...
Elon Musk, the richest man in the world via his interests in the SpaceX space firm and in Tesla automobiles, celebrated both his US$44 billion purchase of the social media firm Twitter and the successful launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket by posting an image of its...
A Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket launched 54 Starlink v1.5 satellites as part of Group 4-36 at 1451 GMT on 20 October 2022 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The SLC-40 pad was used. The reusable booster B1062 on its tenth flight, landed down range on the drone ship A...
Now that the European Space Agency (ESA) has accepted that the Ariane 6 will not launch before late 2023, with knock-on effects on its later flights, and bearing in mind the unavailability of Soyuz rockets due to the War in Ukraine, the agency has decided to move two...
After a one day delay caused by bad weather at the landing site, The SpaceX operated Crew Dragon NASA Crew 4 (Freedom) space capsule undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) IDA-3 port at 1605 GMT on 14 October 2022 with astronauts with Kjell Lindgren,...
