Iridium Communications Inc. has announced the target launch date for their fifth flight aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, to continue deployment of their Iridium NEXT communications constellation. Meanwhile, the U.S. government shutdown is now creating uncertainties for SpaceX with their near-term manifest.
SpaceX conducted its final launch of 2017 Friday, with a Falcon 9 lifting off from…
The unprecedented destruction and humanitarian crises spawned by Hurricanes Maria and Irma revealed the significant…
Iridium Communications – in the midst of launching their next generation communications constellation – has…
In what has already been a busy year for SpaceX, the commercial launch provider is…
SpaceX completed a Static Fire test at Vandenberg Air Force Base on Thursday. The test,…
With just 20 satellites of the Iridium Next constellation in orbit, Iridium Communications’ six remaining…
SpaceX has conducted a static fire test on the next Falcon 9 to launch from…
SpaceX is set to Return To Flight (RTF) no sooner than January 14, with the…
The Teal Group – a defense and aerospace consulting firm that provides intelligence to government…
SpaceX has closed out its most successful and record-breaking year yet. Its Falcon program broke…
OneWeb has finished its initial satellite constellation buildout, as India and its space agency, the…
SpaceX has launched the Eutelsat-10B communication satellite into a supersynchronous geostationary transfer orbit. A Falcon…
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, carrying a…
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…
Only a handful of days after successfully returning domestic crew launch capabilities to U.S. soil…
SpaceX launched the Starlink V1.0 L5 mission from LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday.…
SpaceX’s drone ship Just Read the Instructions (JRTI) has arrived in Port Canaveral, Fla. after…
After a three-month halt in orbital launches for SpaceX, the company has begun making a…
