Iridium Communications – in the midst of launching their next generation communications constellation – has formally signed an agreement with SpaceX to utilize flight-proven Falcon 9 boosters on their upcoming Iridium NEXT-4 and -5 missions. Iridium NEXT-4, scheduled to launch NET 22 December 2017 from SLC-4E, will be the first flight-proven Falcon 9 mission from Vandenberg. The change in boosters now negates the possibility of a Return To Launch Site landing of the Falcon 9 for the mission.
Recent challenges with weather concerns and the movement of key flights such as USSF-52 and…
While the spaceflight world waited for the Starship Integrated Flight Test-2 (IFT-2) launch that happened…
Reviewing the week in spaceflight and upcoming events, it’s been another busy period, including NASA…
On the two main coasts of the United States, SpaceX launched a number of low…
SpaceX launched another batch of 56 Starlink internet communication satellites into low Earth orbit (LEO)…
SpaceX launched 51 Starlink internet communication satellites into low Earth orbit on its Starlink Group…
Iridium has secured a $30 million research and development contract with the United States Army…
The Starlink constellation received another 60 satellites, as Falcon 9 B1060-6 launched on Falcon 9’s…
Just days after a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried the American-European Sentinel-6A oceanography satellite into…
SpaceX has broken another reuse record on the Starlink v1.0 L10 mission. For the first…
Iridium Communications has selected Relativity Space to provide launch services for up to six Iridium…
A year after completing launch of their Iridium-NEXT constellation, the Iridium Corporation has marked a…
After a three-month halt in orbital launches for SpaceX, the company has begun making a…
Just eight months after completing an ambitious, uninterrupted service replacement of their 66 interconnected satellite…
The much-awaited and heralded launch of SpaceX’s Starlink internet satellite constellation launched on Thursday. With…
A 12 year campaign – including a two year, eight launch process – came to…
The eighth and final Iridium NEXT launch – that was conducted on Friday – will…
SpaceX launched Qatar’s Es’hail-2 spacecraft Thursday, using a Falcon 9 rocket to place the communications…
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the first West Coast return-to-launch-site mission Sunday. The launch,…
