A Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket launched 49 satellites to their orbit m SpaceX’s leased launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. Lift off of the flight Starlink Group 4-7 was at 1813 GMT on 3 February 2022. The satellites were injected into a...
The Vandenberg launch site in California hosted the launch of yet another secret satellite payload for the US National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). This time the mission was dubbed NRO L-87 and it was launched by a SpaceX Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 launch vehicle at 2027...
After several delays, a final one involving a cruise ship straying into the danger zone, SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 launch vehicle from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, USA, at 2311 GMT on 31 January 2022. The vehicle was...
Bulgarian small satellite maker Endurosat has joined forces with Kenya’s SayarLabs who will respectively build and operate a 3U cubesat-class spacecaft TAIFA-1. TAIFA-1, meaning “one nation” from Swahili, first Kenyan 3U software-defined NanoSat. TAIFA-1 will...
While for the most part SpaceX Starlink satellites have proved to be reliable – or at least reliable enough to begin commercial telecommunications service – astrophysicist and space orbital analyst, Jonathan McDowell, has noted that the satellites launched on Starlink...
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 49 Starlink satellites from Kennedy Space Centre, Florida, USA. The flight lifted-off at 0203 GMT on 19 January, a two hour delay from its original target. This mission, like that of the previous launch on 6...
