Gearing up for their second Vandenberg flight in as many months, SpaceX has static fired the Falcon 9 that will lift an extremely light-weight Taiwanese satellite to orbit next week. The static fire, a key step in every Falcon 9 launch campaign, paves the way for the launch of Formosat-5 on Thursday, 24 August at 11:50 PDT from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Air Force Base, CA, ahead of a first stage landing on the ASDS “Just Read The Instructions”.
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket made its twenty-fifth flight – and its second of the month…
The Falcon 9 first stage that successfully landed on the deck of the Autonomous Spaceport Drone…
SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft returned to flight Friday with the CRS-8 resupply mission to the International…
SpaceX successfully conducted a second attempt to launch its Falcon 9 rocket, tasked with sending…
As May transitions into June, a European Space Agency (ESA) mission to study the Earth’s…
After SpaceX achieved a record-breaking 12 Falcon 9 launches in March, the company continued this…
The week of Jan. 4 to Jan. 10 saw the long-awaited maiden flight of the…
The week of Oct. 23 through Oct. 29 has been a big one for low-Earth…
Another busy period in spaceflight is underway with three Falcon 9 rockets with Starlink payloads…
Following several launch delays last week, the week of Aug. 21 through Aug. 27 is…
Following a plethora of launches last week, the week of Aug. 14 through Aug. 20…
The week of July 16 through July 23 saw four more launches take place around…
SpaceX launched 51 Starlink internet communication satellites into low Earth orbit on its Starlink Group…
As SpaceX resumed Falcon launches after Starship’s exhilarating first orbital flight test last week, the…
Hot on the heels of Tuesday’s successful CRS-27 launch, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 was in action…
SpaceX ended January with and began February with two Starlink missions. These launches occurred two…
SpaceX’s busy 2023 continued with the launch of Starlink 5-2, a mission that plans to…
SpaceX carried out the first Starlink launch of 2023 with a mission placed 51 satellites…
SpaceX has shattered the record for launches in a calendar year by a single rocket…
