Satellite News

Rocket: Electron; Payload: Sequoia; Date: 31 August 2020, 0305 UTC; Launch site: Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand. Electron successfully deployed the single microsatellite to a circular orbit at approximately 500 km for Capella Space.

Rocket: Falcon 9; Payload: SAOCOM 1B, Tyvak-0172, GNOMES-1; Date: 30 August 2020, 2319 UTC; Launch site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, USA. This mission marked SpaceX’s first launch to a polar orbit from the East Coast, and the first polar launch from Florida in decades.

The lightweight Vega launcher is a “go” for its flight from French Guiana on 2 September (UTC) to demonstrate Arianespace’s smallsat rideshare offering.

SpaceX has pushed the launch of its next big batch of Starlink internet satellites back two days, to Thursday (Sept. 3).

Galactic halos are both more massive and more complicated than scientists realized, according to new observations from the Hubble Space Telescope.

A long-retired NASA satellite burned up in Earth’s atmosphere over the weekend, the agency has confirmed.

A golden age may be coming for human spaceflight research as more astronauts than ever fly to the International Space Station aboard commercial crew vehicles and through private companies.

On August 31, 1965, NASA’s Super Guppy cargo plane took its first test flight. Here’s how it happened in our On This Day in Space video series!