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...
The SpaceX Transporter-3 rideshare mission launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 1525 GMT, 13 January carrying over 100 satellites. The launch was targeted to deliver its payloads into a circa~ 525 km, sun-synchronous LEO (inclined at 97.6 degrees). The mission...
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket at 2149 GMT on 6 January 2022 from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA. The vehicle was carrying 49 Starlink satellites to continue the growth of this constellation. These satellites are destined for the 53.2 degree...
