Satellite News

Rocket: Falcon 9; Payload: 60 Starlink satellites (batch #14); Date: 18 October 2020,1225 UTC; Launch site: Kennedy Space Center, USA. The Starlink satellites deployed approximately 1 hour and 3 minutes after lift-off.

ULA said the Delta IV-Heavy’s mission to launch a classified U.S. National Reconnaissance Office spy satellite from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station will be postponed beyond next week.

The launch of a Russian Soyuz ST rocket with the UAE’s FalconEye-2 optical-electronic surveillance satellite from the Kourou Space Center is further delayed.

mPower Technology announced that its DragonSCALES solar cell prototype has completed integration and testing on a Sparkwing in-orbit solar array technology demonstrator in preparation for inclusion on Momentus’ Vigoride transfer vehicle launch taking place in the fourth quarter of 2020.

On Oct. 18, 1963, a cat went to space! Félicette was a French “catstronaut.” See how it happened in our “On This Day In Space” series!

SpaceX successfully launched a full stack of Starlink internet satellites into today (Oct. 18) and capped off the mission with a successful rocket landing at sea.

Being an astronaut of the 2020s will be completely different than it was for any astronaut that came before, a panel of spaceflyers told the International Astronautical Congress on Oct. 14.

SpaceX will launch 60 new Starlink internet satellites on a used Falcon 9 rocket today (Oct. 18) and you can watch it fly live online, courtesy of SpaceX. Liftoff is set for 8:25 a.m. EDT (1225 GMT).