18 October 2019
Companies unite to reject SpaceX satellite plans
.... Yet even that completion schedule may well be optimistic,” write SES. Following suit with further disapproval of SpaceX’s “grandiose ambitions”, OneWeb’s letter of complaint is equally scathing about the company and its practices when it comes...
22 April 2020
SpaceX seeks permission to lower the orbit of all its first-gen Starlink satellites
... proximity to consumers on Earth, this modification will allow SpaceX’s system to provide low-latency broadband to unserved and ...them to deploy their own non-propulsive systems near SpaceX’s orbits. SpaceX played down the response by saying it has “...
23 December 2019
New launch target for SpaceX abort test
...remaining three performed in such an event, and instead the other three parachutes also failed to open. As of November, SpaceX had announced 13 consecutive successful tests of the redesigned parachutes and a successful ground test of the launch-abort...
17 January 2020
SpaceX's last critical test before crewed flights begin
... later this year. In preparation of this last major milestone, SpaceX has already raised up its Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon... final spacecraft inspections and side hatch closeout. NASA and SpaceX are targeting 8 am EST (13:00 GMT) Saturday, 18...
22 April 2019
Anomaly during SpaceX test could delay its first crewed flight
...with a similar reassuring message echoing that from SpaceX: "The NASA and SpaceX teams are assessing the anomaly that occurred today ...during a part of the Dragon Super Draco Static Fire Test at SpaceX Landing Zone 1 in Florida. This is why we test. We...
24 May 2019
SpaceX launches first 60 satellites of its Starlink mega-constellation
... releasing each unit on an individual spring-based mechanism, SpaceX literally spun the satellites off the rocket’s upper stage. ...saying only that they will utilise frequencies above 10,000 GHz. SpaceX has indicated that it would need as many as 420 ...
