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SpaceX Falcon 9 launches Starlink Group 5-2
On 26 January 2023, at 0932 GMT, a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 successfully launched 56 Starlink Gen2 satellites from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Their intended orbit is eventually into a circular orbit at an altitude of 530 km,...
Tianwen 1 mission’s Zhurong-1 Mars rover may have expired in its sleep
SpaceNews reports (quoting the South China Morning Post) that the Zhurong 1 Mars rover as part of the Tianwen 1 mission for China has failed to make contact in December as planned after its period of hibernation during the Northern Hemisphere Martian winter since 18...
Japan completes its first launch of the year of the radar reconnaissance satellite IGS RADAR-7
Kicking off its launch year, Japan has placed a radar reconnaissance satellite into near-500 km sun-synchronous low Earth orbit (LEO). The IGS RADAR-7 satellite was launched at 0150 GMT on 26 January by a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) H-2A202 rocket. This mission...
New orders: Isar Aerospace, SpaceX, Raytheon, Advance Space, Clyde Space and Xplore
European launch service company Isar Aerospace and US-based Spaceflight, which offers rides to orbit for satellites, have announced a multi-launch services agreement using Isar Aerospace launch vehicles. Under the agreement, Spaceflight secured one dedicated Spectrum...
Tom Cruise may have saved cinema industry with Top Gun-Maverick but he has even higher movie plans with space station studio module now ordered
While action film actor Tom Cruise has his detractors, you cannot say he is not successful. Recently starring in the Top Gun - Maverick, the long awaited successor to the Top Gun (1986) film that originally made him a major star, he is credited with bringing back, and...
NASA goes Nuclear Thermal as it plans to launch engine on DARPA’s DRACO project test mission in 2027
Nuclear Thermal rocket propulsion has been mooted since the 1960s. The idea is to use nuclear power to heat rocket propellants so that the Specific Impulse – the efficiency measure of how much “push” you get per kilo of propellants – is more than doubled compared with...
Rocket Lab’s Electron KS rocket performs another successful launch – this time from the US East Coast
After another day's delay due to bad weather, a Rocket Lab Electron KS rocket successfully launched three 30 kg Hawk satellites (Hawk 6A, 6B and 6C) into a 550 km low Earth orbit as part of the HawkEye 360 commercial radio frequency analysis constellation from the Mid...
First ISS spacewalk for 2023 completed
On 20 January 2023 JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata and NASA astronaut Nicole Mann opened the Quest airlock hatch at 1312 GMT. The astronauts switched their spacesuits to internal battery power to begin their spacewalk at 1314 GMT. Their objective was to install another...
SpaceX Falcon 9 launches Starlink Group 2-4 from Vandenberg
At 1543 GMT on 19 January a SpaceX Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket conducted its first Starlink mission of 2023. The rocket lifted-off from the Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, carrying 51 communications satellites into LEO (low Earth orbit) as the Group 2-4....
SpaceX deploys GPS satellite for US Space Force
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 from Cape Canaveral, USA at 1224 GMT on 18 January. The vehicle was carrying GPS III-6, the sixth satellite of a line of next-generation Global Positioning Satellites for the United States Space Force (USSF). The...
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