The U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center Launch Enterprise and Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) recently signed a contract modification to reuse a Falcon 9 first-stage booster – for the first time on a National Security Space Launch mission – starting with the fifth Global Positioning System (GPS)-III satellite, scheduled to launch next year.
Rocket: Soyuz-2.1b/Fregat; Payload: GLONASS-K No.15L (Uragan-K No.15L); Date: 25 October 2020, 1908 UTC; Launch site: Plesetsk, Russia. Spacecraft separation into…
The launch of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 531 carrying the NROL-101 mission for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office…
Rocket: Falcon 9; Payload: 60 Starlink satellites; Date: 24 October 2020, 1131 UTC; Launch site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station,…
The solid rocket motors built for Vega-C under contract to Avio have all completed the hot fire tests to qualify…
Two days after touching down on asteroid Bennu, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission team received images that confirm the spacecraft has collected…
ABL Space Systems has completed integrated stage testing of the RS1 small satellite launch vehicle. Testing was performed on the…