WorldView 3 – Spaceflight Now

July 23, 2019

Breaking News

[ July 23, 2019 ] Rocket Lab announces August launch with commercial and military satellites Mission Reports
[ July 22, 2019 ] Chris Kraft, legendary flight director, dies at 95 News
[ July 22, 2019 ] First moon-bound Orion crew capsule declared complete, major tests remain Mission Reports
[ July 22, 2019 ] Pence delivers a promise, and a warning, to NASA and its contractors News
[ July 22, 2019 ] Photos: Soyuz crew blasts off from Baikonur Cosmodrome Mission Reports

Commercial satellite images historic Apollo launch pads

July 9, 2019

Maxar’s eagle-eyed WorldView 3 satellite captured high-resolution views Monday of NASA’s twin Apollo-era launch pads at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, both now home to new launch vehicles 50 years after humans took their first steps on the moon.

Second Iranian satellite launch attempt in a month fails

February 11, 2019

Iran’s second try in less than a month to send a satellite into orbit apparently failed shortly after liftoff from a remote desert launch pad under daily surveillance from a fleet of commercial imaging spacecraft, according to U.S. government officials and independent analysts.

Destructive Canadian wildfire sighted from space

May 9, 2016

Satellites sailing hundreds of miles over a destructive wildfire ravaging the northern Alberta town of Fort McMurray have returning stunning images illustrating the extent of the blaze that has displaced tens of thousands of people.