Just as the Starship SN8 test launch ended in an explosive landing failure in December – after all the hard bits of the flight – so the same has happened to its successor, Starship SN9. After a few days’ delay due to a flight safety waiver dispute with the Federal...
The businessman/entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, 37, who is founder and CEO of Shift4 Payments, has chartered a SpaceX Crew Dragon flight to low-Earth orbit for a human flight in aid of charity. The US$300 million mission, which will take place in late 2021, will carry...
Space and satellite tracking analysts (including those at Seradata) were reeling at their increased workload as a total of 143 mainly “CubeSat” class satellites were launched by a Falcon 9 vehicle on SpaceX’s Transporter-1 launch. Lift-off took place at 1500 GMT on 24...
Lifting-off at 1302 GMT on 20 January, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was launched from Cape Canaveral carrying 60 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit (LEO). The mission lasted for one hour five minutes until the satellites were deployed en masse. This marks the first...
On 19 January Argentinian newspace operator/manufacturer, Satellogic announced its signing of a Multiple Launch Services Agreement (MLA) with American launch company SpaceX. The agreement also establishes SpaceX as Satellogic’s “preferred vendor for...
The SpaceX freighter Cargo Dragon CRS-21 which was being operated on a mission for NASA, undocked from IDA-3 port on the Harmony module of the International Space Station (ISS) at 1405 GMT on 12 January 2021. Unlike earlier the Cargo Dragon design which needed the ISS...
