SS-520 – Spaceflight Now

February 16, 2020

Breaking News

[ February 15, 2020 ] Antares rocket lifts off from Virginia on space station cargo mission Antares
[ February 15, 2020 ] NASA picks Rocket Lab to launch lunar CubeSat mission Mission Reports
[ February 14, 2020 ] SpaceX’s Crew Dragon delivered to Cape Canaveral for first flight with astronauts Falcon 9
[ February 14, 2020 ] SpaceX test-fires Falcon 9 rocket; Starlink launch delayed to Monday Falcon 9
[ February 14, 2020 ] Mars 2020 rover arrives at Kennedy Space Center for July launch Atlas 5

Souped-up sounding rocket lifts off from Japan with tiny satellite

February 2, 2018

A modified sounding rocket originally designed to loft science instruments on high-altitude suborbital arcs blasted off Saturday from the Uchinoura Space Center in southern Japan and soared into orbit to become the world’s smallest satellite launcher.

Experimental flight of Japanese sounding rocket falls short of orbit

January 16, 2017

A small research rocket launched from Japan fell into the Pacific Ocean on Saturday after attempting to send a student-built CubeSat into orbit, Japanese officials said.

Launch of experimental Japanese rocket scrubbed

January 10, 2017

The launch of an experimental fin-stabilized Japanese rocket with a shoebox-sized CubeSat was scrubbed Tuesday, pushing back a test flight to demonstrate how companies and institutions can inexpensively put small satellites in space.