At 0445 GMT on 10 September 2018, a SpaceX-operated Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket took off from the Cape Canaveral launch site. Aboard was the 7,070 kg heavyweight communications satellite Telstar 18 Vantage/APSTAR 5C spacecraft which was successfully injected into...
SpaceX supreme leader, Elon Musk, is in trouble again – and again Twitter appears to be his downfall. Musk is alleged to have broken corporate law in using Twitter to publicly offer to buy back all the shares of his Tesla electric car concern in order to make it...
NASA has formally announced the names of the nine astronauts who will fly on commercial crew flights procured from Boeing and SpaceX. Some work for NASA and some are ex-NASA astronauts who are employed by commercial space firms. Critics note that the hoopla of this...
The Merah Putih communications satellite was successfully launched at 0518 GMT on 7 August 2018 from Cape Canaveral by a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 launch vehicle. The launch reused the core first stage B1046 which was previously used for the launch of the Bangabandhu 1...
Having been berthed to the International Space Station (ISS) Harmony module for just over a month following its Falcon 9 launch and arrival, the SpaceX Dragon CRS-15 freighter, on the last part of its cargo mission for NASA, was unberthed on 3 August using the ISS...
An Ariane 5 ES was launched from the Kourou launch site, in French Guiana, South America, at 1125 GMT on 25 July. It was carrying four Galileo satellites 23, 24, 25 and 26 of the navigation satelllite constellation to Medium Earth Orbit (MEO). This was...
