After a series of delays due to reasons ranging from national holidays to high winds, the Sun-Synch Express mission for Spaceflight Industries was launched by a Space X Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket at 1834 GMT, 3 December 2018. The launch from the western SpaceX launch pad...
During November, the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved the applications of four large-scale communications satellite constellations in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), which will total more than 8,000 satellites if fully implemented. Of these, the SpaceX...
We joked a month or two ago that some would be wondering what Elon Musk had been smoking when they found out that the latest BFS (now called Starship) design had been deliberately changed to make it look more like Tintin’s rocket ship. Now NASA is apparently doing the...
The launch of a Falcon 9v1.2 Block 5 rocket operated by SpaceX lifted off from SpaceX’s launch pad 39A (the former Space Shuttle pad) at the Kennedy Space Center launch site, near Cape Canaveral in Florida. It injected the Es’Hail2 communications...
Elon Musk has announced via Twitter that his SpaceX rocket firm will fly a re-entry test vehicle as part of its BFR/BFS research. This project aims to produce an all-reusable rocket system capable of return not only from low Earth orbit (LEO), but also from the Moon...
Space News reports that Swedish start-up satellite operator Ovzon has made a launch booking on the SpaceX Falcon Heavy for an unnamed and yet-to-be-ordered communications satellite set for geostationary orbit. The launch will take place in Q4 2020 at the earliest. The...
