India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle lifted off from the First Launch Pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Center on the country’s east coast at 3:59 UTC, 9:29 a.m. local time on Friday on a mission to deliver 31 satellites for 15 countries into a Sun Synchronous Orbit
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India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle lifted off from the First Launch Pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Center on the country’s east coast at 3:59 UTC, 9:29 a.m. local time on Friday on a mission to deliver 31 satellites for 15 countries into a Sun Synchronous Orbit
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India’s PSLV Rocket has entered countdown operations for liftoff from the Satish Dhawan Space Center on Friday with the CartoSat-2E Earth-Imaging Satellite and an international rideshare opportunity for thirty secondary payloads of various shapes and sizes in support of Earth observation, technology demonstration, communications and meteorology.
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Two SpaceX launch campaigns are in their final stages on both coasts of the United States with a flight-proven Falcon 9 in the process of meeting its Bulgarian satellite payload for a Geotransfer mission out of Florida and a brand new Falcon 9 firing up its engines at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Tuesday
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China’s Tiangong-2 space laboratory and Tianzhou-1 cargo spacecraft spent five hours apart on Monday in a deliberate maneuver to undock the resupply ship and fly it around the ‘Heavenly Palace’ before bringing it back for a re-docking
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Satellite operator SES announced on Monday that the company’s AMC 9 communications satellite suffered “a significant anomaly” over the weekend and that customers were being transferred to alternate satellites to mitigate service outages as a result of the anomaly.
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The launch of China’s Zhongxing-9A communications satellite atop a Long March 3B rocket did not reach its planned orbital destination on Sunday, Chinese state media confirmed after several hours of silence following the midnight hour liftoff from the Xichang launch base.
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SpaceX announced on Sunday the company had reserved launch opportunities on June 23 and 24 for the next Falcon 9 mission out of Florida that will carry Bulgaria’s first commercial communications satellite
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The third Stage of the Soyuz 2-1A rocket that launched the Progress MS-06 spacecraft on its path to the International Space Station re-entered the atmosphere on Saturday, June 17, 2017
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China’s Long March 3B rocket lifted off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center at 16:08 UTC on Sunday, thundering into the midnight hour with the Zhongxing-9A communications satellite headed to a highly elliptical transfer orbit.
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China’s Tianzhou-1 cargo resupply craft, currently docked to the Tiangong-2 Space Laboratory completed its second in-orbit refueling demonstration
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Russia’s Progress MS-06 spacecraft arrived at the International Space Station on Friday, conducting a fully automated rendezvous culminating in docking to the aft end of the complex to mark the delivery of 2,500 Kilograms of food fuel and supplies aboard the orbiting laboratory.
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SpaceX successfully test fired a previously used Falcon 9 rocket atop its Kennedy Space Center Launch Pad on Thursday in advance of liftoff on Monday with the first commercial Bulgarian communications satellite.
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China successfully sent the country’s first X-ray space telescope into orbit on Thursday atop a Long March 4B rocket blasting off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center at 3:00 UTC.
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A Russian Soyuz 2-1A rocket arced into overcast skies over the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, embarking on a nine-minute climb into orbit with the Progress MS-06 cargo spacecraft headed to the International Space Station.
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A Soyuz 2-1A rocket lifted off from Site 31/6 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 9:20:13 UTC on Wednesday, June 14, 2017 with the Progress MS-06 spacecraft loaded with 2.5 metric tons of cargo
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A Soyuz 2-1A rocket lifted off from Site 31/6 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 9:20:13 UTC on Wednesday, June 14, 2017 with the Progress MS-06 spacecraft loaded with 2.5 metric tons of cargo
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