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Successful installation of another iROSA on spacewalk
Expedition 69 Flight Engineers Stephen Bowen and Warren "Woody" Hoburg began their spacewalk (US EVA-87) from the Quest airlock on 9 June at 1325 GMT. Their mission was to install an IROSA (International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Array) to augment power generation...
Starlink Group 5-11 is launched by Falcon 9
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket from the SLC-40 pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA at 0710 GMT on 12 June 2023. The vehicle was carrying Starlink Group 5-11, a total of 52 of the smaller v1.5 Starlink satellites. Starlink Group 5-11 is...
Firefly Aerospace acquires Spaceflight Inc to expand on-orbit services
Texas-based Firefly Aerospace, a start-up rocket manufacturer and launch provider, has acquired Spaceflight Inc in a move to boost its on-orbit services, the company announced on 8 June. Spaceflight Inc is a leading commercial smallsat launch arranger, which also...
Orders: US Space Force makes allocations to SpaceX and ULA, Apogeo books Vigoride, Intelsat makes MEP order, OroraTech to get eight more sats from Spire, Lockheed Martin books small sat onto Firefly Alpha
The US Space Force's Space Systems Command (SSC) has allocated twelve FY23 National Security Space (NSS) launch bookings under the National Security Space Launch (NSSL) Phase 2 Launch Service Procurement contract to SpaceX and to the United Launch Alliance. Six Falcon...
Lijian-1 rocket reportedly puts 26 satellites into orbit in its second mission but not all are confirmed
At 0410 GMT on 7 June 2023, the second launch of the Lijian-1 (Kinetica-1) rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, Inner Mongolia, China reportedly put 26 satellites into orbit. This rocket built by CAS Space (partially owned by the Chinese Academy of...
Chinese Kuaizhou-1A rocket launches Longjiang-3 – a prototype of its equivalent of Starlink
A Chinese CASIC-operated Kuaizhou-1A solid rocket launch vehicle was launched at 0235 GMT on 9 June 2023 from the Jiuquan launch site in Inner Mongolia. Aboard was the Longjiang-3 high-bandwidth communications test satellite. The satellite is built by the Harbin...
Falcon 9 puts Dragon CRS-28 resupply freighter into orbit on way to ISS
The SpaceX operated Dragon CRS-28 cargo ship on behalf of NASA was launched by a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket at 1547 GMT on 5 June 2023 on its way to the International Space Station (ISS). The launch took place from the Kennedy Space Center's Pad 39A. Update...
China’s crewed Shenzhou 15 undocks from Chinese Space Station and lands as Tianzhou 5 cargo craft returns to CSS
Shenzhou 15, with its crew of three (Fei Junlong, Deng Qingming and Zhang Lu) aboard, undocked from the forward port of the Tianhe module of the Chinese Space Station (CSS Tiangong) at 1329 GMT on 3 June 2023. After making a re-entry burn Shenzhou 15 landed in Inner...
Russian Express AM-5 comsat suffers from thermal control problem akin to its sister satellite (Corrected)
Russian communications satellite Express AM-5 (Ekspress-AM 5) has suffered a thermal control loop/heat pipe failure, Russianspaceweb.com reported at 0130 GMT on 3 June. The official report on 5 June said that part of its Ku-band communications payload had to be turned...
Falcon 9 launches Starlink Group 6-4 from Cape Canaveral
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 launch vehicle from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA at 1220 GMT on 04 June 2023. The rocket was carrying Starlink Group 6-4, a total of 22 of the larger second generation V2 mini Starlink satellites. The B1078...
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