Elon Musk's claim that the governmental and societal response to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic is an overreaction and "dumb" has caught up with him (again) as it was revealed that the 30 March 2020 scheduled launch of Argentina's SAOCOM-1B remote sensing satellite by a SpaceX Falcon 9 satellite launch vehicle from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (AFS) in Florida, United States, has been postponed.
Read More »Rocket Lab Postpones Launch Of Its Next Mission In Response To COVID-19 Situation
Rocket Lab has postponed the launch of its next mission in response to the COVID-19 situation.In response to the evolving COVID-19 situation, we have paused launch preparations for our next mission to protect the health and safety of Rocket Lab team members, our families, and the wider community.
Read More »China’s Long March 2C Rocket Launches Military Surveillance Satellites Into Orbit
China successfully launched three national security satellites on board a Long March 2C satellite launch vehicle from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre on 24 March 2020, according to Chinese news media sources. The Long March 2C launched the sixth group of three Yaogan-30 intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) satellites from …
Read More »Intelsat Selects SpaceX To Launch Intelsat 40e Satellite
Intelsat has selected SpaceX as its launch partner for Intelsat 40e (IS-40e). The launch is planned for 2022 on SpaceX’s American-built Falcon 9 launch vehicle.
Read More »Rocket Lab’s Electron Launch Vehicle Certified By NASA
NASA has certified Rocket Lab’s Electron launch vehicle, providing confidence for NASA’s low cost scientific, educational and technology demonstration small satellites, the company announced on 17 March 2020.
Read More »OneWeb In Trouble Despite Successful Launch Of Another 34 Satellites
British-headquartered satellite communicatons company OneWeb announced on 21 March 2020 that another 34 satellites were successfully launched on board a Soyuz satellite launch vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. This successful launch – the second in six weeks – comes a day after a story appeared in Bloomberg suggesting …
Read More »OneWeb Confirms Third Launch; Dedicates It To Late Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov
OneWeb, the global communications company with a mission to bring connectivity to everyone everywhere, confirmed its next launch will take place on Saturday, 21 March 2020 at 17:06 GMT from the historic Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Read More »SpaceX Launches Its Sixth Starlink Mission
SpaceX launched its sixth Starlink mission at 8:16 a.m. EDT (12:16 UTC) on 18 March 2020. The Falcon 9 launch vehicle lifted off from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, US.
Read More »Exolaunch To Deliver UAE Space Agency’s Small Satellite Into Orbit On Soyuz-2
Berlin-based Exolaunch, a leading launch services and deployment system provider for small satellites, announced on 17 March 2020 that the launch of a 3U cubesat, MeznSat, for the UAE Space Agency will be performed aboard a Soyuz-2 rocket.
Read More »Kleos Finalises Launch Preparations At Launch Site
Kleos Space S.A, a space-powered radio frequency reconnaissance data-as-a-service (DaaS) company, advised on 12 March 2020 that the mission team will be travelling to the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Chennai, India from 18 March to carry out the final preparation steps prior to launch.
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