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TAMPA, Fla. — AST SpaceMobile has fully funded its first five commercial satellites slated to launch with SpaceX early next year after raising $115 million in debt, the low Earth orbit direct-to-device startup said Aug. 14. The financing is on top of the $64 million the Texas-based venture recently raised…

A Falcon 9 lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on August 11, 2023, carrying 22 Starlink satellites. Photo: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now. SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral early Friday morning carrying another 22 second-generation Starlink satellites into orbit. Liftoff from…

LOGAN, Utah — SpaceX is offering a second class of rideshare missions on its Falcon 9 rocket to serve customers seeking to go to mid-inclination orbits. During a presentation at the 37th Annual Small Satellite Conference here Aug. 9, Jarrod McLachlan, director of rideshare sales at SpaceX, said the company…

The European Space Agency’s next-generation heavy-lift rocket, Ariane 6, definitely won’t launch until at least 2024, the agency’s director general confirmed this week.  Ariane 6 was first scheduled to launch four years ago. However, the rocket has suffered a series of delays, attributed to technical issues, COVID-19, and design changes. …

Another batch headed for low-Earth orbit. SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida Credit: SpaceX SpaceX has successfully launched another batch of Starlink satellites into orbit. On Sunday, at 10:41 p.m. ET, one of the Elon Musk-owned company's…

Africa Mobile Networks (AMN) has appreciated its investment in Nigeria as a prelude to making inroad into more countries in sub-Saharan Africa. To this end, it has entered into a commercial agreement to use Starlink, SpaceX’s constellation of low earth orbit satellites, to connect station base of AMN’s mobile network…

SpaceX fired up its Starship Super Heavy Booster 9 for a static test of its liquid methane-fueled Raptor rocket engines. The test was advertised to last “just under five seconds” but appeared to be cut short at 2.74 seconds. Four of the 33 Raptor engines were reported to have shut…

News Spaceflight SpaceX launched 22 more of its Starlink internet satellites tonight (Aug. 6) and landed the returning rocket on a ship at sea. A Falcon 9 rocket topped with the Starlink spacecraft lifted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station tonight at 10:41 p.m. EDT (0241 GMT on…

TAMPA, Fla. — The last satellite Intelsat needs to claim nearly $5 billion in total C-band spectrum clearing proceeds is performing well after launching Aug. 3. on a Falcon 9, its manufacturer Maxar Technologies said. The Galaxy-37/Horizons-4 satellite started communicating with ground crews and successfully deployed solar arrays shortly after…

A Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Aug. 3, 2023, carrying Intelsat’s Galaxy 37 satellite. Photo: Adam Bernstein. SpaceX launched an Intelsat communications satellite early Thursday, part of a fleet-wide refresh under a Federal Communications Commission push to free up transmission…