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...
SpaceX has won the launch contract to put the Egyptian communications satellite Nilesat 301 into orbit. The launch will use a Falcon 9 launch vehicle from Cape Canaveral in 2022. The 4,000 kg satellite is currently being built by Thales Alenia Space. The contract...
While doubts remain about the SpaceX Crew Dragon, especially after its total destruction during a ground test last year, SpaceX appeared to vindicate itself after making a full flight test of the system before it begins carrying astronauts to the International Space...
Two launches occurred on 7 January 2020, signalling the start of a new year of launches. The first launch was early in the day and lifted-off from Cape Canaveral, United States of America, at 0219 GMT. The second mission took place from the Xichang Satellite Launch...
Northrop Grumman made a big show of its mainly solid rocket-based OmegA, aimed at the military and government market, at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC 2019) in Washington DC in October. But it was not until 12 December that the company announced that...
