Virgin Orbit attempted to carry out the first satellite launch from the United Kingdom on Monday with the first LauncherOne mission out of Spaceport Cornwall. LauncherOne was dropped from Virgin’s Cosmic Girl carrier aircraft off the coast of Ireland at approximately 23:11 UTC, and flight appeared nominal through stage 2 ignition and fairing separation, although updates from Virgin Orbit during the flight were intermittent.
Arianespace has suffered a failure during Vega-Consolidation’s (Vega-C) first operational launch, which was set to…
OneWeb has resumed deployment of its satellite constellation with the launch of 36 satellites aboard…
The Eutelsat Hotbird-13F geostationary communications satellite launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 out of Cape…
Germany’s SARah-1 military radar Earth observation satellite launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from…
The European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) Euclid space telescope has moved closer to launch after prime…
Following a successful Starlink mission from Vandenberg, California, SpaceX has launched a second Falcon 9…
The arrival of the second Orion European Service Module (ESM) at the Kennedy Space Center…
Fifty years ago, a small rocket lifted off from the Australian Outback on a mission…
In an important prelude to the James Webb Space Telescope launch, planned for no earlier…
The initial deployment of OneWeb’s satellite broadband constellation reached its halfway stage on Thursday with…
Arianespace and Starsem have launched 34 more internet communication satellites of the OneWeb constellation to…
The Vega rocket conducted its nineteenth launch of Europe’s small lift vehicle, the second Vega…
Close to one year after its last flight, the Ariane 5 ECA has returned to…
On Friday, July 23, NASA announced that SpaceX was the winner of a commercial procurement…
The eighth delivery of OneWeb satellites into Earth orbit lifted off at 12:48 UTC launch…
NASA is currently forecasting that Artemis 2 will be ready to launch no earlier than…
The seventh batch of OneWeb satellites were successfully launched on a Soyuz 2.1b rocket from…
After a five month grounding, Vega returned to flight following a launch failure in November…
SpaceX began the global launch year with the flight of Türksat 5A, a Turkish communications…
