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Russian Cosmonauts make EVA to replace ISS hardware
At 1424 GMT on 22 June 2023, Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin opened the Poisk module hatch on the International Space Station (ISS) to begin spacewalk VKD-59. Their mission during this EVA (Extra Vehicular Activity) was to retrieve several...
Experimental satellite SHIYAN-25 launched by China
Launching at 0318 GMT on 20 June a Chinese Long March 6 (CZ-6) rocket carried Shiyan-25 into LEO. The mission took place from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, Northern China. Like many of its Shiyan-series siblings this satellite is only described as an...
ULA launches Delta IV Heavy carrying NRO L-68 mission
While offering somewhat less than the launch cadence of its SpaceX competitor, nevertheless, the Boeing/Lockeed Martin jointly owned launch provider, the United Launch Alliance (ULA) is still making some important launches. After a delay from the day before caused by...
Falcon 9 launches 47 LEO comsats as Starlink Group 5-07 from Vandenberg
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket from Vandenberg, California, USA at 0719 GMT on 22 June 2023. The launch vehicle was carrying Starlink Group 5-07, a total of 47 v1.5 Starlink satellites as part of the GEN 2 (Second Generation)...
Orbiter SN3 falls into irrecoverable spin forcing emergency release of client sats including Otter Pup, which ended up in a spin of its own
Launcher, the spacecraft delivery company, has reported that not all went to plan following the successful lift-off of its Orbiter SN3 delivery spacecraft on the SpaceX Falcon 9 Transporter-8 mission on 12 June. Orbiter SN3 apparently successfully separated from the...
Indonesian communications satellite Satria launched by SpaceX
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket from the Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA at 2221 GMT on 18 June. The vehicle was carrying SATRIA, ("Satellite of the Republic of Indonesia"), a Ka-band high-throughput...
Rocket Lab makes “HASTE” first Electron suborbital flight for DoD hypersonic payload
Rocket Lab made a the first suborbital launch of its Electron rocket for a paying from Wallops Island, Virginia, USA at 0125 GMT on 18 June 2023. The mission was flown in relative secrecy but it is known to be carrying a payload codenamed DYNAMO-A on a flight called...
NASA astronauts on spacewalk complete installation of iROSA number six
On 15 June 2023 at 1242 GMT Expedition 69 Flight Engineers Warren “Woody” Hoburg and Stephen Bowen began their spacewalk (US EVA-88), after they had opened the hatch of the Quest airlock. With Hoburg leading this EVA, their mission was to install IROSA (International...
China sets domestic record with the launch of 41 Jilin-1 Earth observation satellites into LEO
A Long March 2D/2 (CZ-2D/2) rocket, built by SAST, carried 41 Jilin-1 satellites into LEO from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, China, after lifting off at 0530 GMT on 15 June. The event marked the most satellites launched at one time by a Chinese rocket. Onboard...
Transporter 8 mission launched successfully by Falcon 9
The multi-satellite ride mission Transporter-8 with 72 spacecraft aboard was successfully delivered into orbit from SLC-4E at Vandenberg, California, USA, at 2135 GMT on 12 June 2023. A full list of the cubesats - carried were is on the Seradata Launch and Spacecraft...
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