by Matt Wilson | Jan 20, 2021 | Launches, Satellites, Seradata News, SpaceX
Lifting-off at 1302 GMT on 20 January, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was launched from Cape Canaveral carrying 60 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit (LEO). The mission lasted for one hour five minutes until the satellites were deployed en masse. This marks the first...
by Matt Wilson | Jan 19, 2021 | commercial launch services, Seradata News, SpaceX
On 19 January Argentinian newspace operator/manufacturer, Satellogic announced its signing of a Multiple Launch Services Agreement (MLA) with American launch company SpaceX. The agreement also establishes SpaceX as Satellogic’s “preferred vendor for...
by David Todd | Jan 15, 2021 | International Space Station, NASA, SpaceX
The SpaceX freighter Cargo Dragon CRS-21 which was being operated on a mission for NASA, undocked from IDA-3 port on the Harmony module of the International Space Station (ISS) at 1405 GMT on 12 January 2021. Unlike earlier the Cargo Dragon design which needed the ISS...
by Matt Wilson | Jan 13, 2021 | commercial launch services, Launches, Satellites, Seradata News, SpaceX
On 13 January SpaceX was selected by MethaneSAT LLC (part of the Environmental Defense Fund) to launch its MethaneSAT mission in late-2022. The satellite will ride on a Falcon 9 rocket and will likely be joined by other payloads considering its less than hefty mass...
by David Todd | Jan 6, 2021 | Launches, Seradata News, Technology, Virgin Galactic
According to the Seradata SpaceTrak launch and satellite database, the “final score” for launches in 2020 is 11 launch failures out of 114 orbital attempts. One of these failures was really a minor partial involving a pair of stuck Lemur satellites on a...
