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Two hurricane-monitoring NASA CubeSats have launched into space atop a Rocket Lab Electron booster from the Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula at 1:00 pm NZST, on May 8, (9:00 pm EDT, on May 7).Continue ReadingCategory: Space,… Continue reading NASA’s TROPICS hurricane satellites reach orbit on second launch
History was made today as a private company leapfrogged ahead of NASA by launching the largest, most powerful rocket ever. At 8:36 am CDT, SpaceX’s uncrewed Starship lifted off from the company’s Starbase at Boca Chica, Texas, on an orbital test flight… Continue reading SpaceX successfully launches largest ever space rocket – which blows up
ESA’s historic mission to explore the moons of Jupiter – and orbit the largest moon in the solar system, Ganymede – is on its way today, as its eight-year voyage to the giant planet begins. At 2:14 pm CEST (12:14 GMT), the JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (J… Continue reading Juice mission to Jupiter’s moons lifts off from French Guiana
It was a glass half-full situation on March 22, 2023 when Relativity Space carried out the first successful launch of an almost entirely 3D-printed rocket from Launch Complex 16 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 11:23 pm EDT. Though t… Continue reading World’s first 3D-printed space rocket lifts off
The mystery of why the first orbital mission launched from the UK fell into the sea on January 9 had some light shed on it today as Virgin Orbital announced that telemetry indicated that the second stage engine shut down prematurely.Continue ReadingCat… Continue reading Second stage engine malfunction blamed for UK space launch failure
Britain’s attempt to launch its first orbital rocket in over half a century and the first from UK soil failed today as the second stage of the mission’s Virgin Orbit rocket malfunctioned due to an undisclosed problem.Continue ReadingCategory: Space, Sc… Continue reading First space mission launched from British soil fails to reach orbit
SpaceX has today fired up its mighty Falcon Heavy rocket, the most powerful currently in operation, for the first time since 2019 to successfully lift a set of satellites into orbit for the US Space Force. The company also landed two of the rocket’s si… Continue reading SpaceX’s all-powerful Falcon Heavy flies for the first time since 2019
Startup SpinLaunch is working on an alternative way of firing things into space that doesn’t involve first-stage rockets, but instead a launch system that spins payloads around in a centrifuge and hurls them into the sky. Those payloads will need to be… Continue reading Satellite-flinging SpinLaunch puts NASA payload through the wringer
Texan startup Firefly Aerospace has joined the growing group of orbit-capable space startups, with the successful launch of its Alpha rocket over the weekend. The mission saw a set of satellites deployed into low-Earth orbit and marks a long-awaited st… Continue reading Firefly Aerospace rockets into orbit with successful Alpha launch
Virgin Orbit has ticked off another milestone for its fledgling launch business, successfully carrying out its first night-time mission over the weekend and deploying satellites into low-Earth orbit. The flight is the first of three the company will ca… Continue reading Virgin Orbit carries out its first night mission for the US Space Force