Month: July 2020

On a beautiful blue sky late afternoon July 20th 2020 at 5:30 PM EDT or 21:30 UTC SpaceX Falcon 9 lifted off from launch complex 40 and successfully delivered ANASIS II communication satellite for the South Korea military into orbit. SpaceX has also confirmed that it caught both fairing halves for the first time and Read More

SpaceX ANASIS 2 a south Korean military satellite sits poised on launch complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Florida for a launch attempt at 5:00 PM EDT or 21:00 UTC for a four hour window on historic first stage booster B-1058 which flew astronauts Bob Beknken and Doug Hurley to the ISS International Space Station on Read More

We have lift-off. H2A, the rocket carrying the Hope Probe to space, has launched from the Tanegashima Space Centre in Japan. https://twitter.com/MBRSpaceCentre/status/1284973963165208576?s=20 UAE team during the final checks before the launch of the Hope Probe, the first Arab interplanetary mission, at the Tanegashima Space Centre in Japan. Read More

On February 10th 2020 the European Space Agency ESA in conjunction with NASA launched the Solar Orbiter on top a ULA Atlas V rocket from launch complex 41 Cape Canaveral Florida with mission goals to pass near the sun and still be able to photograph it and acquire new scientific data including a first time Read More

…at 5:00 PM EDT or 21:00 UTC from launch complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Florida. The first stage booster being re-flown is B-1058.2 (2nd flight) which successfully flew astronauts Col. Bob Behnken and Col. Doug Hurley to the International Space Station on May 30th 2020. ANASIS II was built by Airbus Defense & Space as Read More

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This illustration shows the moment after liftoff of the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The spacecraft begins the first part of its journey to Mars atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V launch vehicle. More information about the mission is at: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/. Team with NASA to send off the Perseverance rover to Read More

1.7 million pounds of thrust from nine brand new SpaceX Merlin engines worked perfectly on this Falcon 9 booster B-1061.1 as it begins to break the bonds of gravity and lift this United States Space Force DOD GPSIII-SV03 satellite into outer space at 4:10 PM EDT June 30th 2020. GPS is something we all use Read More