The 23-story tall booster lifted off from a fog-shrouded Pacific Coast launch pad at 1:25 p.m. local time (4:25 p.m. EDT/2025 GMT). The first stage separated as planned 2.5 minutes later, turned around and headed back toward a drone barge ...
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India Launches Record-Breaking 104 Satellites on Single Rocket
The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) blasted off from India’s Satish Dhawan Space Centre at 10:58 p.m. EST (0358 GMT on Feb. 15) with three satellites from India and 101 smaller nano satellites (also called nanosats) from five other countries: ...
Read More »China’s Earth observation satellites failed to reach planned orbit
The two SuperView 1, or Gaojing 1, satellites are flying in egg-shaped orbits closer to Earth than it was planned and will likely re-enter the atmosphere within months, according to Spacelift Now. The high-resolution Earth-observing satellites were supposed to go ...
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