12 July 2022
Star billing for first Webb picture
... beginning at 16:30 CEST. Webb is the largest, most powerful telescope ever launched into space. Under an international collaboration agreement, ESA provided the telescope’s launch service, using the Ariane rocket. For more information see: Essential...
December 2014
A door closes
... providing powerful engines, the RD180s, for the Atlas V rockets to launch its most important military satellites into orbit, and many US firms used Russian launch services for their commercial satellites. But after Russia’s annexation of Crimea...
07 October 2015
Google Lunar X Prize sees first verified launch contract
... announced Wednesday that it had signed a launch contract for a lunar module, with take... at the end of 2017. Seattle-based Spaceflight Industries will provide the launch services, using a Falcon 9 rocket purchased from SpaceX. “Last year we made...
10 February 2017
UK pledges cash for commercial launch capabilities
..., interested parties have been asked to develop competitive, commercial and safe spaceflight proposals for UK-based satellite launch services and sub-orbital flights. Businesses expected to bid for a share of the newly allocated funding are likely...
15 April 2018
TESS, NASA's planet-finding mission launches today!
... readiness review (yesterday morning) and here we are. The spacecraft and the launch vehicle are ready to go,” said Omar Baez, launch director for NASA’s Launch Services Program at a prelaunch news conference last night from NASA's Kennedy Space...
06 May 2019
Japan's first private rocket launches successfully
... flight test in 2020. As with many NewSpace start-ups, Interstellar’s goal is to provide ultra low cost, reliable launch services to capitalise on the growth in the small satellite market and Horie is hopeful of his new business; “I’m hoping that...
