SpaceLogistics, a subsidiary of American manufacturer Northrop Grumman, announced its plans for launching its MRV satellite on 21 February. The MRV or Mission Robotic Vehicle is its next step in the evolution of its satellite servicing business. The company outlined...
The spacecraft operator and launch provider SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 vehicle from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, USA, at 1425 GMT on 3 March. The launch vehicle was carrying the 47 Starlink satellites on their Group 4-9...
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 lanch vehicle carrying 50 Starlink satellites at 1712 GMT, 25 February from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, USA. The spacecraft, collectively dubbed Group 4-11, were carried up to a deployment orbit of...
Launching at 1444 GMT on 21 February a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has carried 46 Starlink satellites to LEO (Low Earth Orbit). The mission took place from Cape Canaveral, the USA, and was launched into a south-easterly direction. The launch carried three satellites fewer...
Jared Isaacman, the US billionaire who recently funded a part-charity human space mission called Inspiration4 which flew into orbit on a Falcon 9-launched Crew Dragon in September 2021, is planning to fund three more private human missions, dubbed Polaris. The first...
SpaceX has admitted a new blow to its Starlink low Earth orbit-based communications satellite constellation. There were already doubts about the reliability of the Starlink V1.0 satellites (about a quarter of the 60 satellites on a Falcon 9 launch in March last year...
