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- Launch Previews: SpaceX and ISRO to launch rideshare missions into SSO NASASpaceflight · 6 Jan 2026 SpaceX leads the week’s launch manifest with three scheduled missions and, at the time of…
- Microgravity Research Rideshare Program Launched by Genesis, Experiments from €6K to and from SSO SpaceNews · 22 Dec 2025 21 December 2025, Čakovec — Genesis Space Flight Laboratories launches its Microgravity Research Rideshare Program, making it easier and more affordable to conduct retrievable experiments in space. From now on, […]
- Celebrating the First Earth Day Event at NASA Headquarters NASA · 17 Sep 2024 Introduction Organized by the Science Mission Directorate’s Science Support Office (SSO), NASA hosted its 12th annual Earth Day Celebration event from April 18–19, 2024. For the first time ever, the two-day event was hel...
- Japan’s maiden launch of H3 rocket fails during second stage flight NASASpaceflight · 6 Mar 2023 JAXA and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries launched – at the second attempt – to maiden launch of the H3 launch vehicle at 01:37 UTC Tuesday. However, the vehicle failed shortly after staging, via an apparent failure to light...
- JAXA and Mitsubishi abort cost-cutting H3 rocket at T0 NASASpaceflight · 16 Feb 2023 JAXA and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries planned to debut the H3 launch vehicle early Friday. However, the launch was aborted at T0 when the main engine shut down before the Solid Rocket Boosters were to ignite. For its maid...
- Arianespace suffers failure on first operational Vega-C mission NASASpaceflight · 20 Dec 2022 Arianespace has suffered a failure during Vega-Consolidation’s (Vega-C) first operational launch, which was set to carry the Pléiades Neo 5 and 6 Earth-observation satellites to a Sun-synchronous orbit (SSO). Vega-C lift...
- Rocket Lab launches “The Owl Spreads Its Wings” mission NASASpaceflight · 15 Sep 2022 Rocket Lab has made the company and the Electron rocket’s 30th flight. “The Owl Spreads Its Wings,” the company’s third dedicated flight for Japanese company Synspective, launched to Sun-synchronous orbit (SSO) on Thursd...
- SpaceX set to launch third batch of sun-synchronous Starlink satellites Teslarati · 12 Aug 2022 SpaceX says it’s on track to launch a third batch of operational Starlink satellites to sun-synchronous orbit (SSO) as early as 2:40...
- Chang Zheng 4C lifts Gaofen-5-02 satellite to orbit NASASpaceflight · 7 Sep 2021 On Tuesday, September 7 China launched the second Gaofen-5 remote imagery satellite into a 705 km sun-synchronous orbit (SSO). The launch took place at 03:01 UTC on a Chang Zheng 4C and was conducted from Launch Complex...
- China places two KL-Beta satellites into orbit NASASpaceflight · 5 Aug 2021 Without previous warning or announcement, China’s space agency launched two satellites from Launch Complex 16 at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center on Wednesday, August 4. The two payloads, called “KL-Beta-A” and “KL-Be...
- Arianespace launches Vega’s return to flight with rideshare mission NASASpaceflight · 28 Apr 2021 After a five month grounding, Vega returned to flight following a launch failure in November 2020 — the rocket’s second in as many years. For its 18th mission, Vega launched the Pléiades-Neo 3 satellite along with severa...
- Photos: Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Vandenberg on SSO-A rideshare mission Spaceflight Now · 7 Dec 2018
- SpaceX Falcon 9 launches SSO-A multi-sat mission NASASpaceflight · 3 Dec 2018
- Timeline of Falcon 9’s launch on the SSO-A mission Spaceflight Now · 3 Dec 2018
- Spaceflight SSO-A: SmallSat Express Mission SpaceX · 2 Dec 2018