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SpaceX Falcon 9 launches 55 Starlink satellites – this time Group 5-4
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA at 0510 GMT on 12 February. The vehicle was carrying 55 Starlink Gen2 (Generation 2) satellites of Group 5-4 which were placed into an initial low Earth orbit. They will...
Events on the ISS: Progress MS-20 cargo craft raises International Space Station, then makes way for Progress MS-22…as Progress MS-21 springs a leak
At 1030 GMT on 3 February 2023, the cargo craft Progress MS-20 fired its engines for a 1.4m/s to boost itself and the attached International Space Station to 424 x 412 km. Four days later, having been loaded with garbage, at 0456 GMT on 7 February, the Progress MS-20...
Amazonas Nexus comsat is launched into a Super-synchronous transfer orbit by Falcon 9
After a few days of weather related delays, a SpaceX Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket was successfully launched from Cape Canaveral, on the coast of Florida, USA at 0132 GMT on 7 February 2022. Aboard was the communications satellite Amazonas Nexus which was being...
Proton-M launches Elektro-L N4 weather sat for Russia
A Proton-M/Block DM-03 launch vehicle was successfully launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome, near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan at 0912 GMT on 5 February 2023. It carried the Elektro-L N4, a Russian geostationary weather satellite. It is the Fourth Elektro-L satellite to be...
Upgrade to ISS continues as EVA prepares for additional solar arrays
On 2 February 2023, after the Quest airlock was depressurised, NASA astronaut Nicole Mann and JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata opened the hatch at 1245 GMT, 30 minutes ahead of schedule. Their mission objective was to complete the construction of a mounting platform on...
Violent second-stage separation triggered chain of events that prevented maiden SSLV final stage burn…but next SSLV flies OK
An investigation by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) into the failure of the maiden flight of its latest rocket, the SSLV, has revealed that an exceptional shock during separation compromised the guidance system. The SSLV-D1 launch seemed to go well with...
Starlink Group 5-3 is launched by a SpaceX Falcon 9
At 0758 GMT on 2 February 2023 a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 successfully launched 53 Starlink Gen2 satellites (Group 5-3) from LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA.Their intended eventual operational orbit once they have raised themselves from their initial...
South Korea shifts Kompsat 6 and CAS500-2 missions from Russian launchers
Following international bidding, South Korea has settled on an Arianespace Vega C rocket to launch Kompsat 6 (Arirang 6), the South Korean vice-minister for Science, Oh Tae-seog, announced on 1 February. The contract replaces one previously held with International...
SpaceX launches another batch of Starlinks plus ION-SCV9 delivery spacecraft testing separation system
A Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 was launched from the Vandenberg Space Force base in California at 1615 GMT on 31 January. Aboard was a batch of 49 Starlink satellites (Group 2-6) for the SpaceX Starlink constellation. ION-SCV 9 (SCV 0009) — InOrbit NOW Satellite Carrier...
US sanctions SPACETY for supplying radar imagery to Russian Wagner Group in Ukraine
Just as Ukraine's military campaign has been supported by US commercial spacecraft operating firms — with SpaceX and Maxar providing broadband communications and Earth imagery respectively — a Russian private army group has apparently also benefitted from the help of...
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