At 0540 GMT on 31 August, SpaceX launched 46 Starlink satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. This Starlink Group 3-4 mission was the 39 orbital mission and the 25 dedicated Starlink mission so far this year by SpaceX. The first stage, B1063 on its...
At 0341 GMT on 28 August SpaceX launched a batch of 54 Starlink satellites to LEO. The mission utilised its Falcon 9 rocket and lifted-off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The mission had been planned to utilise the neighbouring Kennedy Space Center facility however, due...
SpaceX’s Dragon CRS-25 successfully undocked from the forward port of the Harmony module of the International Space Station (ISS) at 1505 GMT on 19 August. The uncrewed CRS-25 resupply spacecraft made a parachute-assisted splashdown off the coast of Florida at...
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral, USA at 1921 GMT on 19 August. The vehicle was carrying Starlink Group 4-27, which consists of 53 Starlink satellites. The B1062 first stage successfully landed on the drone barge “A Shortfall of Gravitas”...
While others have launch options, Japanese satellite operator Sky Perfect JSAT Corporation has become the first to formally select SpaceX’s Starship/Super Heavy rocket – often just called Starship – to launch its Superbird-9 satellite. The launch to geosynchronous...
After a slight delay due to upper-level winds in the vicinity of the launch site, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 successfully launched 52 Starlink satellites on 10 August at 0214 GMT from the Kennedy Space Center – Eastern Test Range. Less than 9 minutes after the launch, first...
