The much proclaimed Monday keynote at SATELLITE 2020, featured SpaceX founder Elon Musk. He spoke about the future of his projects at SpaceX, namely the Starlink constellation, and the in-development Starship, super-heavy, manned, launch vehicle. When speaking about...
The Dragon CRS-20 cargo spacecraft was successfully launched into orbit on its way to the International Space Station (ISS) on a SpaceX Falcon 9 in a night launch from Cape Canaveral at 0450 GMT on 7 March 2020. The night time launch (1150 pm on 6 March local time)...
On 28 February, NASA formally awarded a launch contract to SpaceX for the use of its large Falcon Heavy launch vehicle to carry its Psyche mission into space. Under the US$117 million contract, the Psyche asteroid exploration mission launch will take place form the...
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 60 Starlink communications satellites at 1505 GMT on 17 February from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, USA. The attempt to land the core stage on the landing barge “Of Course I Still Love You” failed...
SpaceX has been given the contract to launch the upcoming PACE mission on a Falcon 9 vehicle. PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) is a NASA Earth Sciences mission to study phytoplankton as well as clouds and aerosols in the oceans. The mission is planned...
In its roll-out of its own LEO communications satellite constellation, SpaceX successfully launched another 60 Starlink satellites into low Earth Orbit. The launch took place at 1406 GMT on 29 January 2020 from Cape Canaveral on a Block 5 version of the Falcon 9v1.2...
