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,...
It was a busy weekend for SpaceX which launched two Falcon 9 rockets in less than 24 hours between 13 and 14 May. A Falcon 9 (Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5) from Vandenberg, USA was launched at 2207 GMT on 13 May 2022. The vehicle carried 53 Starlinks (Group 4-13) into...
Satellogic, the South American newspace company, announced on 4 May a new contract with SpaceX to launch 68 of its Earth observation satellites on an unspecified number of future launches. These missions are set to begin in “early 2023”. The parties are currently...
At 0942 GMT on 6 May a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida carrying 53 Starlink satellites. The payloads were successfully bulk deployed in to their deployment orbit in LEO at around an hour after launch. They will now undergo...
