Tag: Launch
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Russian supply ship launches to International Space Station
A Soyuz-2.1a rocket lifts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome Wednesday with the Progress MS-23 cargo ship. Credit: Roscosmos Russia’s Progress MS-23 cargo freighter launched Wednesday from Kazakhstan on a mission hauling more than 2.7 tons of fuel, food, experiments, and supplies to the International Space Station. The Progress MS-23 supply ship lifted off at 8:56:07…
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OneWeb Confirms Successful Deployment of its Satellite Constellation Including Next-generation JoeySat
OneWeb, the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite communications company, confirmed the successful deployment of 16 satellites that will provide increased resilience and redundancy to the OneWeb constellation as the company progresses toward global services. Included in this key batch is JoeySat, a satellite that will test an innovative beam-hopping capability that will allow satellites to…
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Saudi Space Commission Announces the Arrival of Saudi Astronauts at the International Space Station
Two Saudi astronauts Rayyanah Barnawi and Ali AlQarni and the mission team crew have arrived at the International Space Station (ISS), after their spacecraft Dragon 2 successfully docked. NASA has announced the successful docking of Dragon 2 after 16 hours of the rocket launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The docking…
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Axiom Space’s Second Private Mission to the International Space Station Successfully Launched
Four private astronauts are in orbit following the successful launch of Axiom Mission 2 (Ax-2), the second all-private astronaut mission to the International Space Station. Axiom Space astronauts lifted off at 5:37 p.m. EDT on Sunday, May 21, from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket propelled…
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Inmarsat Selects SWISSto12 to Develop its I-8 Satellites to Power L-Band Network
Inmarsat, one of the world leaders in global, mobile satellite communications, has announced that SWISSto12, one of Europe’s fastest-growing aerospace providers, will develop its new eighth-generation of spacecraft. The three I-8 satellites will provide additional network resilience, securing the future of Inmarsat’s global L-band safety services. SWISSto12, headquartered in Switzerland, will use its HummingSat satellite…
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Blue Origin Selected by NASA as the Second Artemis Lunar Lander Provider
NASA has selected Blue Origin of Kent, Washington, to develop a human landing system for the agency’s Artemis V mission to the Moon. NASA will explore more of the Moon than ever before, uncovering more scientific discoveries, and preparing for future astronaut missions to Mars. Blue Origin will design, develop, test, and verify its Blue…
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SpaceX launches 22 new-generation Starlink satellites
Watch a replay of our live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on the Starlink 6-3 mission at 2:19 a.m. EDT (0619 UTC) on May 19 from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. Follow us on Twitter. [tabby title=”SFN Live”] [tabbyending] Another Falcon 9 rocket…
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Reflex Aerospace Prepares for its First Commercial Mission to Expand its Investor Base
Reflex Aerospace is gearing up for its first commercial space mission on time for the company’s second anniversary. The Berlin and Munich-based space start-up has secured a fixed slot for the rocket launch of its demo satellite. The launch is set to take place in fall 2024 on a Falcon 9 rocket from SpaceX. The goal of…
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Tomorrow.io’s Satellite Launch Forges Path for Advancement in Global Weather Forecasting
The Tomorrow Companies Inc., the world’s leading weather intelligence platform, announced successful on-orbit operation of its first satellite, Tomorrow-R1. Launched at 11:48 pm PDT on April 14, Tomorrow-R1 is the world’s first commercially built weather-radar satellite. It is orbiting at 500 km above Earth in a polar orbit, and carrying a Ka-band radar ideally suited…
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Live coverage: SpaceX launches satellites for OneWeb and Iridium
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California with 16 satellites for OneWeb’s internet network and five satellites for Iridium’s voice and data relay constellation. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter. [tabby title=”SpaceX Webcast”]…