At 1417 GMT on 12 June, the Canadian three-satellite Radarsat Constellation Mission (RCM) – was launched by a Falcon 9v1.2r Block 5 into a sun-synchronous low Earth orbit of circa 604 x 584 km at an inclination of 97.4 degrees relative to the equator. The...
SpaceX has launched the first 60 satellites in its Starlink low Earth orbit constellation of communications satellites aimed at providing high bandwidth with low latency to mobile users on Earth. The launch, which had been delayed by over a week by upper level winds...
At the GEO Launch Services panel during the SATELLITE 2019 conference, SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell, announced that SpaceX would be conducting their first Starlink launch on the 15 May 2019. Shotwell wouldn’t give the exact number for the amount of...
While the UK Prime Minister Theresa May might be at risk of being imminently fired herself – not least over her determined self-righteousness over her Brexit plan (Update on 28 May 2019: Prime Minister May has now given in her notice to quit and will leave...
The SpaceX Dragon CRS-17 cargo freighter spacecraft, on a resupply mission for NASA, was successfully launched into low Earth orbit by a Falcon 9 at 0648 GMT on 4 May on its way to dock with the International Space Station (ISS). The Falcon 9 first stage landed on the...
The delayed unmanned launch, docking and recovery of the SpaceX Crew Dragon DM-1 capsule went without a hitch when it finally happened in March, but disaster has since struck the capsule – and with it, NASA’s plan to fly astronauts on a new Crew Dragon in July. NASA’s...
