SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2 Block 5 vehicle from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA at 1634 GMT on 7 April 2020. The launch carried 60 Starlink satellites. The B1058 first stage of the vehicle on its seven flight made a successful landing on the drone barge...
There have been lots of comings and goings on the International Space Station (ISS) during April. The SpaceX Crew Dragon Reslience being flown as part of the NASA Crew 1 mission – undocked from ISS from Harmony module’s forward docking port at 1030 GMT on...
At 0828 GMT on 24 March SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 vehicle carrying 60 STARLINK satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, USA. The Launch vehicle first-stage successfully landed on the drone barge Of Course I Still Love You at 0836 GMT...
NASA’s much delayed and very expensive SLS heavy-lift launch vehicle (HLV) has coming under renewed criticism as SpaceX’s partly reusable commercial HLV has advanced into its stage testing programme (the main super-booster stage is nearly constructed while the...
At 1001 GMT on 14 March a SpaceX Falcon 9 launched from Kennedy Space Centre, Florida carrying 60 STARLINK satellites. This was the third such launch this month, with a fourth mission planned for 21 March. The satellites were dispensed into a sub-300 km deployment...
On 9 March 2021 the US Space Force (USSF) awarded launch contracts for four upcoming missions planned to launch in 2023. The contracts were split two apiece between ULA (United Launch Alliance) and SpaceX. ULA has been given responsibility for launching...
