"Now the launch of the Starliner without a crew is planned for October 28," the agency’s interlocutor said, adding that this date is preliminary and further delay in launch is not ruled out.
1319-EX-ST-2019FCC permit for the launch has NET Sep. 23.(also it's a little confusing that astraspace.net is another company, Astra LLC, that turned up in another permit today)
PARIS — SpaceX hopes to launch 24 Starlink missions in 2020 as the company builds out a broadband megaconstellation that could ultimately number close to 12,000 satellites, a company executive said Sept. 10. SpaceX’s Starlink launch cadence will likely average “two a month,” in addition to customer launches, Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX’s president and chief operating officer, said at the World Satellite Business Week conference here. “Next year, I hope we launch 24 Starlinks,” Shotwell said. Shotwell said SpaceX might launch more Starlink missions this year, but the final number will depend on customer missions. SpaceX will prioritize launching customers before its own broadband satellites, she said. “If some customers move out, I’ll have some Starlink launches — maybe up to four Starlink launches this year — but we won’t push a customer out for that, so we will wait and see what the end of the year looks like and see what we can fit in.”Shotwell didn’t specify if Starlink missions will be solely on Falcon 9s or if they will also include Falcon Heavy launches.
Virgin Orbit is developing an air-launched small rocket, LauncherOne, that Hart said should make its first orbital launch attempt in the middle of this fall....“There’s a lot of talk about dedicated launches being better than rideshare,” said Tim Ellis, chief executive of Relativity Space, which is working on its Terran 1 rocket for commercial launches beginning in 2021....Those dramatic changes include the unveiling in August of a new smallsat rideshare program by SpaceX. The company first proposed an annual series of dedicated Falcon 9 launches from Vandenberg Air Force Base for smallsats, but weeks later said it would instead offer three such missions a year, as well as secondary payload opportunities on Starlink missions.
Moved forward to February.I wonder if it's because the seal pupping season starts in March and SpaceX doesn't have JRTI on the west coast so they really need to be able to land on LZ-4.QuoteRaúl Kulichevsky of Argentina’s CONAE space agency says their SAOCOM-1B Earth obs satellite will launch next February on a Falcon 9. (SAOCOM-1A also launched on a Falcon 9 last October.) #WSBWhttps://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/1172448572777697287
Raúl Kulichevsky of Argentina’s CONAE space agency says their SAOCOM-1B Earth obs satellite will launch next February on a Falcon 9. (SAOCOM-1A also launched on a Falcon 9 last October.) #WSBW
In June, Bigelow announced that it had bought seats on four launches of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule, a new vehicle that will soon be able to transport people to low Earth orbit. The plans were to sell tickets to tourists for $52 million each. It would be a first step toward transitioning the government-run ISS to a more commercialized station."the company has been very interested in sending tourists to the space station"However, those plans are no longer in the works, according to Bigelow. He noted that sending tourists to the ISS is increasingly complicated, considering the number of companies that own different assets on the station. “You have to negotiate then with 11 different legal departments,” said Bigelow. So his company’s plans are on pause until NASA figures out how to juggle all of those logistics and regulations. “We were this close to hiring a lot of people and setting up offices in Houston to really get with it,” said Bigelow of the tourist plan. “To get into the whole advertising, entertainment, sponsorship, the whole enchilada. And so we had to put the brakes on.”Bigelow also noted that finding people who want to pay more than $50 million for a seat to go to space are hard to come by.
The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) is expected to be the first spacecraft to operate in a near rectilinear halo orbit around the Moon.
The pathfinder mission represents a rapid lunar flight demonstration and could launch as early as December 2020.
“I’m immensely proud of the Rocket Lab team here at Launch Complex 2 and continuously impressed by the drive and dedication of the Virginia Space, MARS, and NASA teams, as well as our many local suppliers, as we’ve worked together to build a launch site in record time. We’re now entering an exciting period of testing and commissioning to get Launch Complex 2 ready for its first Electron launch in early 2020,” said Mr. D’Mello.
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-funds-cubesat-pathfinder-mission-to-unique-lunar-orbitQuoteThe Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) is expected to be the first spacecraft to operate in a near rectilinear halo orbit around the Moon.QuoteThe pathfinder mission represents a rapid lunar flight demonstration and could launch as early as December 2020.
A number of launch options are possible for the mission, including being the primary payload on a small spacecraft launch vehicle. After launch, CAPSTONE will take approximately three months to enter its target orbit and begin a six-month primary demonstration phase to understand operations in this unique regime.
Any new info regarding the launch of NSLSat 1 from Kodiak?
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MOSCOW, Sep 28 - RIA News. The launch of the next U.S. cargo ship Cygnus to the International Space Station (ISS) with the Antares launch vehicle with Russian engines, scheduled for October 21, was postponed to October 29, a source in the space rocket told RIA Novosti.
2019NET October - test launch (ballast/dummy payload, cubesats) - LauncherOne - Runway 12/30 Mojave Air and Space Port, Boeing 747 "Cosmic Girl"
Late - Landmapper-HD 1 (Corvus-HD 1) (TBD), Unicorn-2a, Delfi-PQ1 - Vector-R B1003 (inaugural flight) - Kodiak