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IAC 2023 Baku: Astroscale updates us on its progress on COSMIC an ADR project for the UK government
Speaking at a Technical Session on 5 October here at the IAC 2023 Baku, Azerbaijan, Jason Forshaw of Astroscale UK introduced us to the COSMIC programme they are working on. COSMIC (Cleaning up Outer Space Mission through Innovative Capture) is a UKSA-sponsored ADR...
China launches third batch of Yaogan 39 remote sensing satellites
China launched three YAOGAN 39 satellites from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in southwest China's Sichuan Province onboard a Long March 2D vehicle on 5 October at 0024 GMT. This is the third Yaogan 39 mission from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre. The Yaogan...
IAC 2023 Baku: Airbus DS outlines hopes for new business in LEO space station and human exploration markets
Another contributor to the third plenary at the IAC 2023 Baku, Azerbaijan, was Manfred Jaumann, Head of Low Earth Orbit and Suborbital Programs in Space Systems, at Airbus Defence and Space (Airbus DS). Jaumann outlined the Starlab joint venture and the eponymous...
Luna 25 lunar crash failure report reveals engine shutdown signal was never sent due to control system overload
Russian space agency Roscosmos has released its preliminary report about the crash of Luna 25 onto the surface of the Moon. Luna 25, having achieved lunar orbit, was executing a manoeuvre on 19 August to lower this to an elliptical 110 x 16 km “pre-landing orbit” in...
IAC 2023 Baku: Axiom Space talks about its plans for a space station to follow the ISS
The first Plenary Session of the second day here at the IAC 2023, Baku, Azerbaijan, saw a discussion between three companies which are planning commercial space stations or transportation activities in low Earth orbit (LEO). Involved in this session was Axiom Space an...
FCC issues first space debris fine to DISH Network for Echostar 7 (Corrected)
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has fined communications satellite operator DISH Network US$150,000 for its failure to move its Echostar 7 satellite to either a fast re-entry or a graveyard orbit, in the first ever fine issued for space debris by the...
SpaceX launches its Starlink Group 6-19 using its Falcon 9
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA at 0200 GMT on 30 September 2023. The vehicle was carrying Starlink Group 6-19, a total of 22 v2 Mini satellites for the second-generation Starlink constellation. The...
Eutelsat completes merger with OneWeb to create European GEO-LEO giant
French satellite operator Eutelsat Communications SA and UK government part-owned OneWeb have completed an all-share merger, to create Eutelsat Group, a new entity raring to compete in the commercial space race with Elon Musk’s Starlink and Jeff Bezos’s Project...
Iran launches Noor 3 (Nour 3) satellite using Qased rocket launch
A Qased rocket launch at 0558 GMT on 27 September from the Qased Shahroud Test Centre, Iran, carried the Noor 3 (Nour 3) electronic intelligence satellite into a 456 x 442 km orbit at 60 degrees inclination. https://twitter.com/i/status/1707132455184933370...
Soyuz MS-23 undocks from ISS and returns to Earth
With the hatch closed at 0441 GMT on 27 September 2023, Soyuz MS-23 undocked from the Prichal module of the International Space Station (ISS) at 0754 GMT with Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev, Dmitri Petelin and NASA astronaut Frank Rubio onboard. Soyuz MS-23 had...
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