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SpaceX Catches its Super Heavy Booster 12
STARSHIP SUPER HEAVY TEST FLIGHT 5 (IFT-5) (Ship 30 upper stage and Booster 12) successfully launched from Starbase, Boco Chica Beach, Brownsville, Texas, on 13 October 2024 at 1225 GMT. This was the fifth flight test of a SpaceX Starship launch vehicle. This...
Vulcan-Centaur CERT 2 test flight makes robust escape after solid rocket booster nozzle blow out
While the launch of the CERT-2 demonstration launch for the newly introduced Vulcan Centaur rocket carried noting of importance - a 1.5 metric ton inert mass replaced the too-late-to-fly Dream Chaser space plane originally planned to be carried - nevertheless the...
Launches in October 2024
SpaceX suspends Falcon 9 launches after another upper-stage anomaly afflicts crew mission
For the third consecutive month, SpaceX has brought launches of its Falcon 9 rocket to a temporary halt after an anomaly occurred on its latest crewed mission. What happened? Crew-9 was launched aboard a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 at 17:17 (GMT) on 28 September from Cape...
Satellite TV giants Dish and DirecTV decide to merge to fight outside competition rather than each other
While sometimes mergers and acquisitions signal the strength of a market, this cannot be said of the merger of former Direct-to-Home (DTH) satellite TV rivals Dish Network and DirectTV. In a double move, Dish Network was acquired by DirecTV from its owner Echostar for...
Mel’s Good Space – September 2024
On 12 September I was asked to do an interview with Al Jazeera English covering the Polaris Dawn spacewalk. What was meant to be a 5-minute overview of what the mission meant to the commercialisation of space ended up being a 45-minute, live play-by-play of the...
Satellite and launch orders in September 2024
There were a number of launch and spacecraft orders this month. NASA is going to fund a Starship Space debris inspection mission launching in late 2026 In a blow for Europe's (late and expensive) Ariane 6, Eutelsat signs multi-launch agreement for Japan's H3 Astranis...
Seradata’s recommended space stories – September 2024
We are cutting through the orbital debris for you. In other words, we're keeping an eye on space news on the web so you don't have to. Here is our round-up of the most important, and interesting, space news stories of September (space orders can be found in another...
SpaceX Falcon 9 launches Crew Dragon to ‘very high’ LEO on Polaris Dawn commercial spacewalk mission
The first commercially funded spacewalk mission, Polaris Dawn, was launched at 0923 GMT on 10 September by a Falcon 9v1.2 Block 5 rocket. The four private astronauts aboard the Crew Dragon capsule included the mission’s sponsor, billionaire businessman Jared Isaacman....
Boeing recovers its empty CST-100 Starliner without its crew
Boeing confirmed that Starliner, its Crew Flight Test (CFT) mission to the International Space Station (ISS), was safely recovered only – to its eternal embarrassment – minus the crew. Starliner undocked from the ISS at 2204 on 6 September. Using an airbag and...
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