Lifting off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, at 2117 GMT, on 12 September, a Russian Soyuz-FG rocket successfully carried its three riders: two NASA astronauts and one Roscosmos cosmonaut, into orbit. Due to the ideal characteristics of the current ISS...
With Hurricane Irma bearing down on Florida and little chance for another attempt the following day, at 1400 GMT, 7 September, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted-off from Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, United States. The mission was for the US Air Force (USAF)...
The regional operator Kacific Broadband Satellites has chosen the SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle to launch its KACIFIC-1 spacecraft. The satellite which is currently being built by Boeing using a version of its 702 bus design will be launched in 2019. Kacific-1 is a...
In an effort to restore capacity for customers impacted by the recent in-orbit fault on NSS-806 in which 12 of the spacecraft’s transponders were lost, SES has decided to launch its replacement, SES-14, earlier than scheduled on a Ariane 5 flight rather than...
A SpaceX-operated Falcon 9V1.2 FT-R launch vehicle lofted the FORMOSAT-5 remote sensing spacecraft into a 720 km sun-synchronous orbit on behalf of Taiwan’s National Space Organisation (NSPO) at 1851 GMT on 24 August 2017. Nearly 11 minutes after lift off, the...
Launch Pad 39A, at the Kennedy Space Centre, USA, played host to a SpaceX Falcon 9 medium-lift launch vehicle cargo mission to the ISS (International Space Station) at 1631 GMT, 14 August. The launch was twelfth SpaceX resupply mission to the ISS, and utilised their...
