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Blue Origin gets NASA’s vote for second cryogenic lunar lander which will be under much less time pressure than SpaceX
Having lost out in the competition to produce NASA’s initial lunar lander for its Human Landing System (HLS), Blue Origin’s National Team celebrated the award of a contract for a second lander design under the agency’s NextSTEP-2 Appendix P Sustaining Lunar...
Inmarsat orders three small GEO Inmarsat-8 satellites from newspace manufacturer Swissto12
Inmarsat, a British GEO operator being bought by Viasat, has ordered three GEO satellites from newspace entity Swissto12. These units will be based on the Swissto12 HummingSat GEO bus and will be much smaller than previous Inmarsat satellites. The deal, announced on...
SpaceX Falcon 9 launches Starlink Group 6-3 from Cape Canaveral
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA at 0619 GMT on 19 May 2023. The vehicle was carrying Starlink Group 6-3, a total of 22 second generation Starlink satellites. The reusable B1076 first stage (on its 5th...
Thales Alenia Space wins US$256 million Italian contract for servicing demo mission
Thales Alenia Space has secured a US$256 million (€235m) contract from the Italian Space Agency (ASI) to develop a dedicated In-Orbit Servicing (IOS) demonstration mission scheduled to launch in 2026. Thales Alenia Space is a joint venture between Thales, a French...
China launches first backup satellite for its BeiDou satellite navigation system
Launching at 0249 GMT on 17 May a CALT Long March 3B (CZ-3B) rocket has carried a Chinese BeiDou-3 satellite navigation satellite into orbit. The mission lifted-off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Southern China. The BeiDou-3 unit, identified as BeiDou-3...
JUICE finally manages to get its radar antenna out but there is no joy for hobbled Lunar Flashlight
ESA’s JUICE (JUpiter ICy-moon Explorer) mission, built by Airbus, which is planned to make detailed observations of Jupiter and its three large ocean-bearing moons, has managed to finally deploy the 16 m radar antenna for the Radar for Icy Moons Exploration (RIME)....
Roscosmos cosmonauts complete EVA to fit radiator
Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin opened the airlock hatch on the Poisk module at 1547 GMT on 12 May. This was the third in a series of three planned spacewalks for the cosmonauts. This mission objective was to deploy a radiator on the...
Another Falcon 9 Starlink launch: this time carrying 56 comsats for Group 5-9
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA at 0503 GMT on 14 May 2023. The launch vehicle was carrying 56 communications satellites for the SpaceX Starlink constellation's Group 5-9. The reusable B1067 first stage,...
SpaceX Falcon 9 puts 51 Starlink comsats into orbit as Group 2-9
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket from Vandenberg, California, USA at 2009 GMT on 10 May 2023. The vehicle was carrying Starlink Group 2-9 (a 51 total Starlink v1.5 dsatellites). The reusable Falcon 9 B1075 first stage on its third flight...
Tianzhou-6 is launched to orbit on a Long March 7 (Updated)
A Long March 7 (CZ-7) rocket has successfully launched the Tianzhou-6 freighter spacecraft at 1322 GMT on 10 May 2023 on its way to the Chinese Space Station (CSS/Tiangong). The launch took place frorm Wenchang Satellite Launch Centre, Hainan Island, in Far Eastern...
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