MISSION SUCCESS! Payload deployment confirmed for Electron's 77th launch,... releasing JAXA(Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency)'s RAISE-4 satellite to a 540km LEO 🛰️🚀show more

Mission success. Payload deployment confirmed for @open_cosmos. Welcome to... orbit! 🛰️🚀show more

MISSION SUCCESS and payload deployment confirmed! Music to our... ears for the 'Symphony In The Stars' mission and Electron's 68th launch.show more

PAYLOAD DEPLOYMENT CONFIRMED! That’s mission success for Electron’s 60th... launch 🚀 Welcome to space, BlackSkyshow more

Mission info for today's Electron launch for @KAISTpr. ⏰Launching:... 1:55p.m. NZT 🚀Launch site: LC-1 Pad A 🌎Mission: Earth-observation 🛰️Payload: NEONSAT-1A 🎯Orbit: 540km LEO 📺Watch launch:show more

MISSION SUCCESS for our 74th Electron launch, with successful... payload deployment confirmed for the QPS-SAR-14/YACHIHOKO-I satellite for iQPS / QPS研究所/QPSホールディングス.show more

MISSION SUCCESS and payload deployment confirmed for the Seventh... StriX. Welcome back to orbit, Synspective!show more

JAXA(Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) The beautiful sound of a... second stage Rutherford engine igniting on the way to space 🔊show more

Electron will launch on a southern trajectory from LC-1... before heading over Antarctica with its mission for JAXA(Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency). With today's clear weather and an early afternoon launch target of 3:09 pm NZT, Electron may be visible along NZ's coastline.show more

Mission success for our 59th Electron launch 🚀 Five... new satellites are now in orbit for Kineis IoT. That’s mission 4 of 5 to build out Kineis IoT’s internet-of-things constellation.show more

You thought the sky was the limit? Wingbits is... going to space 🚀 thanks to a strategic partnership with Spire, leader in space-based data and operator of the largest multipurpose satellite constellation. 🛰️ Together we’re launching a new satellite that will act as a validator of Wingbits’ ground data, increasing the security and reliability of our global flight tracking network. The satellite is scheduled for launch on the SpaceX Transporter-13 mission.show more

Only a few weeks since our last launch for... Synspective and Electron is back on the pad and ready to launch again with the next StriX satellite for their Earth-imaging constellation. 'Ten Owl Of Ten' launch window opens: 🚀4:45 am NZST 🚀1:45 am JST 🚀16:45 UTC 🚀12:45 pm ET 🚀9:45 am PT (June 26)show more

Tomorrow at 22:00 Isar will launch their first test-flight... of Spectrum with a payload intended for Space! The mission carries five CubeSats and one experiment and aims to validate the vehicle’s critical systems under operational conditions. The EU's Space Renaissance 🇪🇺🚀show more

The countdown to liftoff has begun for our next... Electron launch - this time from Launch Complex 2 for the United States Space Force and Space Systems Command. 'Don't Be Such A Square' will deploy the STP-S30 mission with 4x DiskSats by The Aerospace Corporation & NASA in T-5 hours. Launch window opens: 🚀 12:00 am ET, Dec 18 🚀 9:00 pm PT, Dec 17 🚀 05:00 UTC, Dec 18 🚀 6:00 pm NZT, Dec 18show more

Every space mission begins long before launch day. Ideas... become spacecraft. Thousands of decisions are made before a single engine ignites. The European Space Agency (ESA) knows what that journey looks like. As the agency prepares to increase the missions it supports by 2030, it is laying the groundwork for decades of future exploration. Working with Canonical, ESA is building a common platform for mission operations based on open source. Kubernetes, Ceph, PostgreSQL, and Kafka form ESA’s infrastructure foundation. Copyright: Footage - European Space Agency/CNES/Arianegroup Read the full story: #OpenSource #Canonical #ESAshow more

🚨Two major space launch failures! A South Korean rocket... exploded after a failed launch at Brazil’s Alcântara Space Center, ending the mission shortly after liftoff Japan’s H3 rocket also failed to deploy its navigation satellite after the second-stage engine shut down prematurely. The satellite was meant for the Quasi-Zenith system that works with GPS These back-to-back setbacks show how unforgiving space missions remain, even for advanced nations From India’s perspective, ISRO's consistent success may make achievements look routine.. but in reality, every successful launch is still a major milestone ⭐️show more

🇵🇰🚀 Pakistan Completes EO-3 Launch, Accelerating Its Satellite Constellation... Drive Pakistan has successfully placed its PRSC EO-3 Earth Observation Satellite into orbit, marking a significant step in the country’s expanding space programme. The satellite, developed domestically by SUPARCO, was launched from China’s Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, underscoring a model of local manufacturing supported by external launch capability. EO-3 completes a three satellite Earth Observation series: ◽EO-1 (2025) ◽EO-2 (February 2026) ◽EO-3 (latest launch) Together, they form the backbone of a planned integrated Earth Observation system aimed at improving data availability and coverage. Pakistan now operates 5+ Earth observation satellites, with most deployed in the last two years, highlighting a noticeable acceleration in activity. Officials describe the programme as part of a broader shift: 📡 From isolated missions → to a coordinated satellite network From external reliance → to increasing data independence 🚀 From slow launches → to a structured rollout strategy The EO-3 mission also reflects continued technical cooperation with China, particularly in launch services. With additional satellites expected in the coming years, Pakistan appears to be moving toward a multi satellite constellation designed for regular, wide area monitoring. The direction is clear: a steady build up rather than a one off achievement.show more

🚨🇺🇸 ANOTHER CLEAN RETURN FOR SPACEX AS FALCON HAS... A FLAWLESS TOUCHDOWN SpaceX nailed it again. Falcon 9 booster successfully touched down at Landing Zone 4 moments ago after launching [payload/mission details if known, otherwise: its latest mission from Cape Canaveral. The booster, fresh off the pad, executed a textbook return to LZ 4 on Florida's Space Coast, legs deployed, engines relit, and a perfect vertical touchdown. This marks yet another precise landing for the reusable rocket program that's redefined spaceflight. With boosters now routinely flying multiple missions, SpaceX continues to drive down launch costs and push rapid reusability closer to reality. Falcon 9 landing at LZ-4 is the kind of routine that used to be impossible. Now it's just a Friday. Yet it still gets me every time. Source: SpaceX, NSF - NASASpaceflight.comshow more

HUMANITY'S TALLEST MIDDLE FINGER TO PHYSICS Starship towers over... every rocket ever built, a four-hundred-foot testament to engineering arrogance. The chart reveals absurdity: humanity's launch vehicles evolved incrementally for decades, then Elon decided to build a skyscraper that flies. Not content with mere gigantism, he made it reusable. Not satisfied with reusability, he catches it midair with robotic chopsticks. This isn't iteration; it's derangement disguised as progress. Every aerospace engineer who said catching falling skyscrapers was impossible was correct by conventional standards. But conventional standards don't reach Mars. The delusion required to attempt this matches the ambition required to succeed. Starship's scale reveals the engineering philosophy: make it so big that failure becomes mathematically improbable. Need more payload? Build bigger. Need more fuel? Build bigger. Need to colonize Mars? Build something so massive that physics itself must negotiate. Sometimes progress requires refusing to acknowledge limits exist. Source: Tesla Owners Silicon Valley / winespring 🚀✨show more