Tag: commercial-space
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Rocket Lab returns to service with successful launch for Capella
Rocket Lab’s Electron launcher lifts off from New Zealand at 11:05 p.m. EDT Sunday (0305 GMT Monday). Credit: Rocket Lab Flying for the first time since a failure in early July, Rocket Lab’s Electron launcher delivered Capella Space’s first commercial radar remote sensing satellite to orbit after lifting off from New Zealand Sunday. The successful…
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Amid shuffling schedules, Capella to fly its first commercial satellite with Rocket Lab
Artist’s concept of a Capella synthetic aperture radar satellite. Credit: Capella Space After switching rockets two times due to launch delays, Capella Space is set to launch the first spacecraft in a constellation of commercial radar reconnaissance satellites from New Zealand Sunday on a Rocket Lab Electron booster. The small radar satellite, named Sequoia, is…
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Live coverage: Rocket Lab launches Capella’s first commercial radar satellite
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Rocket Lab Electron rocket from Launch Complex 1 on Mahia Peninsula in New Zealand carrying Capella Space’s Sequoia radar remote sensing satellite. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. Rocket Lab’s live video webcast begins approximately 15 minutes prior to launch, and will be available on…
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SpaceX poised for back-to-back launches Sunday at Cape Canaveral
EDITOR’S NOTE: SpaceX called off the Starlink launch attempt early Sunday after stormy weather held up preps at pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. For up-to-date information, see our status centers for the Starlink and SAOCOM 1B missions. A Falcon 9 rocket stands on pad 40 Saturday at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Credit: SpaceX…
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Boeing plans second Starliner test flight in December or January
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated Aug. 28 with details and CFT schedule. Boeing’s Starliner capsule rolls out to the launch pad Dec. 18, 2019, on top of a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket. Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky Boeing said Tuesday it is “making excellent progress” toward launching a second unpiloted test flight of its Starliner crew capsule to…
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SES orders two more Falcon 9 launches from SpaceX
File photo of a Falcon 9 launch from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: SpaceX SES announced Thursday it has tapped SpaceX for two additional Falcon 9 rocket launches from Cape Canaveral to deliver more Boeing-built O3b mPower broadband satellites into orbit, adding to a pair of Falcon 9 flights ordered…
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Images: SpaceX launches more Starlink satellites, catches rocket’s payload fairing
Credit: SpaceX Photo and video imagery from the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Tuesday show the launcher vaulting into space from Cape Canaveral with another batch of nearly 60 Starlink satellites, followed by the successful recovery of the rocket’s first stage booster and payload shroud offshore. The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) rocket lifted off from…
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SpaceX adds more satellites to ever-growing Starlink network
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from pad 40 Tuesday at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Credit: William Harwood/CBS News A Falcon 9 rocket loaded with 58 more broadband relay nodes for SpaceX’s Starlink Internet network took off Tuesday from Cape Canaveral, bringing the total number of Starlink craft launched since May 2019 to 653…
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Stunning imagery highlights weekend Ariane 5 launch
Video credit: CNES Views from an airliner, close-up high-speed launch pad cameras, and photographers around the Guiana Space Center in the jungle of South America show the twilight launch of a European Ariane 5 rocket Saturday with three commercial satellites heading for orbits more than 22,000 miles over the equator. The Ariane 5 rocket…
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Live coverage: SpaceX launches more Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The mission will launch SpaceX’s 11th batch of Starlink broadband satellites, plus three SkySat Earth-imaging satellites for Planet. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter [tabby title=”SpaceX webcast”] [tabby title=”SpaceX mission…