The very competitive offer to launch 200 kg of ride-share payloads into orbit for just US$1 million plus any extra at the same US$5,000 per kg rate – about half that of a competitive dedicated small launch vehicle – is beginning to show benefits for...
Earth observation satellite operator, Planet, has signed a contract with SpaceX for the launch of their six remaining Skysat satellites, Skysats 16-18 and Skysats 19-21. They will be launched as co-payloads as two separate batches on two Falcon 9 launches carrying...
A SpaceX Falcon 9v1.2 Block 5 launch vehicle carried 60 Starlink satellites for SpaceX’s low Earth orbit constellation into orbit from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 1930 GMT on 22 April. This brings the total number of Starlink satellites in orbit to 422. The satellites...
NASA has formally announced, as expected, that a crew of two astronauts, Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, will fly on a SpaceX operated Crew Dragon spacecraft launched by a Falcon 9 rocket on 27 May. In effect, this means that the USA is back in the human orbital launch...
The SpaceX Dragon CRS-20 reusable cargo spacecraft which was being operated on a cargo delivery and recovery mission as the final one of the original Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) contract for NASA, was unberthed from the International Space Station (ISS) Harmony...
SpaceX is looking ahead of the Coronavirus outbreak as it lands yet another launch contract. The global communications satellite operator Intelsat has chosen to launch its Maxar (SSL)-built Intelsat-40e communications satellite via a Falcon 9 launch vehicle. The...
