Small Explorers – Spaceflight Now

December 1, 2024

Breaking News

[ November 29, 2024 ] SpaceX launches combination of NRO Starshield and Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 flight Falcon 9
[ November 29, 2024 ] SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Falcon 9
[ November 28, 2024 ] Vega-C return to flight launch slips a day to allow for ‘further precautionary checks’ Mission Reports
[ November 25, 2024 ] SpaceX launches Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center Falcon 9
[ November 24, 2024 ] SpaceX breaks turnaround record, launching Falcon 9 booster, B1080, twice in less than 2 weeks Falcon 9

SpaceX wins NASA contract to launch X-ray telescope on reused rocket

July 8, 2019 Stephen Clark

NASA has selected a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket — flying with a reused first stage booster — to launch the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer mission from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida in April 2021, bypassing Northrop Grumman’s air-launched Pegasus rocket for the task.

NASA selects missions to observe the sun and its impact on Earth

June 26, 2019 Stephen Clark

NASA has selected two satellite missions for launch on the same rocket in 2022 to investigate the origins of the solar wind and explore the interaction between magnetic fields around Earth with those from the sun.