A single Falcon booster was designed for 10 flights. The next Starlink mission scheduled in mid-November will be launched by a booster on its fourth flight.Since SpaceX started returning boosters in 2015, 44 first stages were recovered: 26 at sea and 18 on land. So far 23 of the recovered boosters have flown.
WASHINGTON, October 23. / TASS /. Boeing Corporation expects to conduct the first test manned flight to the International Space Station (ISS) of the American Starliner (CST-100) spacecraft manufactured by the company in the first half of 2020. This was announced on Tuesday by Jim Chilton, senior vice president of space and military development at Boeing, speaking at the 70th International Astronautical Congress in Washington."As for the manned flight schedule, flying without a crew and with a crew is how we certify the system so that it can be used," he said. “I think this will happen in the first half of next year,” Chilton said.
the CRS-19 Dragon resupply mission to the ISS on December 4 at 12:48pm EST;
QuoteVirgin Orbit25,196 followers13h · EditedWe appreciate the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)'s leadership in constructing the Launch Challenge and we remain very supportive of the underlying goals of the competition. However, after comparing DARPA’s requested timeline with our commitments to our commercial and government customers, we have elected to withdraw from the competition. Our focus remains on completing our final engineering demonstrations and on serving the customers already on our launch manifest. The market is actively validating the need for responsive, dedicated launch and we are hard at work serving those customers and bringing a new capability into service in the coming months. With flight hardware already in position at our first launch site and with both technical and regulatory work well underway at several more launch sites, we believe we are on track to meeting the goals shared by Virgin Orbit, VOX Space, and the DARPA team.https://www.linkedin.com/posts/virgin-orbit_we-appreciate-the-defense-advanced-research-activity-6592491276439035905-q3Z3/
Virgin Orbit25,196 followers13h · EditedWe appreciate the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)'s leadership in constructing the Launch Challenge and we remain very supportive of the underlying goals of the competition. However, after comparing DARPA’s requested timeline with our commitments to our commercial and government customers, we have elected to withdraw from the competition. Our focus remains on completing our final engineering demonstrations and on serving the customers already on our launch manifest. The market is actively validating the need for responsive, dedicated launch and we are hard at work serving those customers and bringing a new capability into service in the coming months. With flight hardware already in position at our first launch site and with both technical and regulatory work well underway at several more launch sites, we believe we are on track to meeting the goals shared by Virgin Orbit, VOX Space, and the DARPA team.
2022TBD - Viper (NASA Moon Rover) - NLSP II - TBD
2020NET January 21 - ELaNa 32: ANDESITE - Electron - MARS
ELaNa 32Date: NET January 21, 2020Mission: Rocketlab – Mahia, New Zealand1 CubeSat Mission scheduled to be deployed ANDESITE - Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
TBD - Lander modules (to Gateway) - NSSL - Canaveral
Two landers will be ready and up there in 2024. ...Possibility exists that #Orion could meet the lunar lander away from the #Gateway with two crew going to lunar surface and two crew going on to Gateway.
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The U.K. has moved a step closer to launching rockets to orbit in the near-future, after the U.K. Space Agency (UKSA) announced $9.5 million (Ł7.35 million) in funding for Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit company to begin launches by the end of 2021.The funds are intended to help Virgin Orbit fly its LauncherOne rocket from a new spaceport being developed at Cornwall Airport Newquay.
ATLAS 5The next United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral, flying with two solid rocket boosters, will launch Boeing's Starliner spacecraft on its first flight, an uncrewed demonstration mission to the International Space Station, on December 17. Sunrise is 7:08am. Then, an Atlas 5 flying with one SRB will launch Solar Orbiter for NASA & Europe on February 5 at 11:15pm EST. The launch window stretches two hours.FALCON 9The next SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral is scheduled to launch the CRS-19 Dragon resupply mission to the ISS from pad 40 on December 4 at 12:48pm EST. The launch window is instantaneous. The launch time gets 22-26 minutes earlier each day. The first stage will land back at the Cape about eight minutes after launch. A Falcon 9 is scheduled to launch an in-flight abort test of the Crew Dragon capsule from pad 39A on December TBD, likely in the morning EST. A Falcon 9 will launch the JCSAT-18/Kacific-1 commsat for Japan from pad 40 on December 15 at 7:10pm EST. The launch window stretches to 8:38pm EST. Other upcoming launches include subsequent Starlink constellation launches, dates TBD.
December 4, Wednesday12:30 p.m. – Launch of SpaceX CRS-19 Commercial Resupply Service mission to the International Space Station. (Launch scheduled at 12:51 p.m. EST) (All Channels)
FALCON 9The next SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral is scheduled to launch the CRS-19 Dragon resupply mission to the ISS from pad 40 on December 4 at 12:51pm EST. The launch window is instantaneous. The launch time gets 22-26 minutes earlier each day. Then, a Falcon 9 will launch the JCSAT-18/Kacific-1 commsat for Japan from pad 40 on December 15 at 7:10pm EST. The launch window stretches to 8:38pm EST. A Falcon 9 is scheduled to launch an in-flight abort test of the Crew Dragon capsule from pad 39A on December TBD, likely in the morning EST.
LauncherOne’s maiden flight is tentatively slated for December 2019, though a location and exact date have yet to be revealed.