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...
Arabsat 6A, a 6,460kg communications satellite built by Lockheed Martin, was sent safely on its way by a Falcon Heavy launch and injected into a 89,808 x 321km super-synchronous transfer orbit. The launch took place from the Kennedy Space Centre, near Cape Canaveral,...
While it might be sans its “pointy” nose cone after it fell off and was damaged in windy weather, the Starhopper test rocket has nevertheless begun to make static firings and short tethered hops at its Boca Chica test site in Texas. This was announced...
