Tag: Inmarsat
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Barring a surprise, SpaceX’s next Falcon Heavy flight is planned in late 2020
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket lifted off at 2:30 a.m. EDT (0630 GMT) on June 25 with two dozen spacecraft on-board. Credit: SpaceX/U.S. Air Force After two successful Falcon Heavy missions in less than 11 weeks, launch fans will likely have to wait until late 2020 for SpaceX’s next Falcon Heavy flight, barring a surprise mission…
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Arianespace wins launch contracts from Inmarsat, Embratel Star One
File photo of an Ariane 5 rocket’s core stage being lifted into position on a mobile launch platform at its launch base in Kourou, French Guiana. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – P. Baudon The London-based mobile telecom provider Inmarsat and the Brazilian satellite operator Embratel Star One have selected Arianespace’s Ariane…
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Japan’s MHI wins deal to launch satellite for Inmarsat
The Inmarsat 6 F1 satellite will launch in 2020 on an H-2A rocket fitted with four solid rocket boosters. This photo shows the H-2A “204” launcher shortly after takeoff in November 2015. Credit: MHI Inmarsat has selected Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to launch the first of two planned sixth-generation communications satellites on an H-2A rocket in…
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Photos: SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket begins flight with Inmarsat satellite
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket took off for its sixth flight of the year Monday from launch pad 39A in Florida, lofting an Inmarsat mobile broadband communications satellite to an orbit more than 40,000 miles above Earth. The Inmarsat 5 F4 satellite is en route to a circular geostationary orbit, where it will expand coverage provided…
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Fourth satellite for Inmarsat’s global broadband network launched by SpaceX
Updated at 1 p.m. EDT (1700 GMT) May 16 with orbit figures. Credit: SpaceX A Boeing-built satellite on the way to join Inmarsat’s globe-spanning network geared to beam Internet and data transmission capacity to airline passengers, maritime crews and military personnel flew into orbit Monday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard an expendable…
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Video: Press site view of Falcon 9’s Monday evening takeoff
Check out a replay of Monday evening’s launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida in this video recorded from the Launch Complex 39 Press Site around three miles from the pad. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launcher lifted off from pad 39A at 7:21 p.m. EDT (2321 GMT) Monday with the Inmarsat…
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Watch a replay of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launch with Inmarsat 5 F4
Miss Monday night’s launch from Kennedy Space Center? Watch a replay of the Falcon 9 rocket taking off with the Inmarsat 5 F4 communications satellite, a heavyweight spacecraft designed to link airliners, ships and others on-the-go via broadband. The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) Falcon 9 rocket took off at 7:21 p.m. EDT (2321 GMT) with the 13,417-pound…
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Live coverage: SpaceX succeeds in commercial satellite launch
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida with the Inmarsat 5 F4 communications satellite. SpaceX’s live video coverage begins at approximately 7 p.m. EDT (2300 GMT). Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.
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Live coverage: SpaceX succeeds in commercial satellite launch
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida with the Inmarsat 5 F4 communications satellite. SpaceX’s live video coverage begins at approximately 7 p.m. EDT (2300 GMT). Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.
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Photos: Falcon 9 rocket, fourth Inmarsat 5-series satellite prepared for launch
Engineers from SpaceX, Boeing and Inmarsat spent the last few weeks preparing a Falcon 9 rocket and the Inmarsat 5 F4 communications satellite for liftoff from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Since the satellite arrived at Cape Canaveral from its Boeing factory in Southern California last month, technicians filled it with 5,372 pounds (2,437 kilograms)…