Dec 2 2020
Soyuz Flight VS24: Mission success at the service of the United Arab Emirates
Arianespace has successfully launched FalconEye, a very-high-performance Earth observation satellite for the United Arab Emirates Armed Forces. With the eighth launch in 2020, Arianespace once again confirms the reliability and flexibility of the Soyuz launcher, which just realized its 24th launch from the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana. On Tuesday, December 1, at 10:33 […]
Jan 17 2021
Virgin Orbit launches 9 satellites
Mojave, California — January 17, 2021 — Virgin Orbit, the California-based satellite launch company, confirmed that its LauncherOne rocket reached space during the company’s second launch demonstration today, successfully deploying 10 payloads for NASA’s Launch Services Program (LSP). Virgin Orbit’s novel launch system uses a technique called air launch, in which a rocket is launched […]
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