5G – Spaceflight Now

June 22, 2026

Breaking News

[ June 22, 2026 ] NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope arrives in Florida Falcon Heavy
[ June 20, 2026 ] SpaceX to launches 24 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Falcon 9
[ June 18, 2026 ] SpaceX launches intelligence-gathering satellites for the National Reconnaissance Office Falcon 9
[ June 17, 2026 ] Arianespace launches its heaviest payload to date with Amazon Leo flight Ariane 6
[ June 16, 2026 ] SpaceX launches 3 Block 2 BlueBird satellites for AST SpaceMobile Falcon 9

ULA, SpaceX win contracts to launch satellites for SES in 2022

August 5, 2020 Stephen Clark

SES has selected United Launch Alliance and SpaceX to launch up to five new commercial C-band communications satellites from Cape Canaveral in 2022 aboard Atlas 5 and Falcon 9 rockets, officials announced Wednesday.

Intelsat, SES buy 10 C-band broadcast satellites from U.S. manufacturers

June 16, 2020 Stephen Clark

Intelsat and SES, operators of the two largest fleets of geostationary communications satellites, have ordered 10 spacecraft from Maxar, Northrop Grumman and Boeing for launches beginning in 2022 to replace C-band capacity being transitioned to 5G cellular network services.