SSI News
ISRO PSLV launches EOS-06 plus eight other satellites
A PSLV-XL launch vehicle launched from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India at 0626 GMT on 26 November. It carried nine satellites. The main payload was a one metric ton satellite called EOS-06, also known as Oceansat-3. It is primarily an ocean observation monitoring...
SpaceX Falcon 9 launches Dragon CRS-26 cargo delivery mission to ISS
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket from the Kennedy Space Centre (KSC), Florida, USA at 1920 GMT on 26 November. The launch vehicle was carrying the Dragon CRS-26, a NASA sponsored commercial resupply mission to the International Space...
China launches Long March 2D/2 carrying three Yaogan 36 Group 3 suspected reconnaissance/SIGINT satellites
China successfully launched a Long March 2D/2 (CZ-2D/2) from Xichang Satellite Launch Centre, China at 1223 GMT on 27 November. The launch vehicle was carrying the Yaogan 36 Group 3 (Yaogan 36-03-A, -B and -C). Earlier Yaogan 36 groups were reconnaissance satellites...
MPR-1 lunar rover is being built by STELLS while Canadensys Aerospace gets lunar rover contract from Canadian Space Agency
The Canadian space start-up firm STELLS has announced that it is working on a rover to go to the Moon. The rover is called Mobile Power Rover-1 (MPR-1) which will be battery powered with its power recharged by solar arrays. The rover has also the ability to recharge...
ESA Ministerial: budget increase saves former ExoMars rover “Rosalind Franklin” as ESA shows off its next astronauts including the first parastronaut
Despite a feeling that Europe has been “left behind” in the race between China and the US – especially by firms such as SpaceX – it was nonetheless surprising in these difficult economic times that European nations managed to raise ESA’s budget by 17 per cent,...
Advanced Space receives US$72 million for AFRL Oracle mission
Finalising a contest started earlier this year in March the USA's Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has awarded a US$72 million contract to Advanced Space LLC. Advanced Space is currently operating the NASA CAPSTONE mission in Lunar orbit. This most recent award...
Having jumped ship from Astra Rocket NASA’s remaining TROPICS satellites will now fly on Electron launches
NASA has selected Rocket Lab's Electron KS rocket to provide the launch service for the agency’s Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation Structure and Storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats (TROPICS) mission, as part of the agency's Venture-class...
SpaceRyde to launch multiple flights with ISILaunch from 2024
Canadian launch startup SpaceRyde has secured multiple launch agreements with ISILaunch, a launch services subsidiary of Netherlands based Innovative Solutions in Space B.V. (ISISPACE). The companies agreed on a multiple launch agreement which will see four private...
Falcon 9 launches Eutelsat 10B comsat
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA, at 0257 GMT on 23 November. The vehicle was carrying Eutelsat 10B, a C- and Ku-band high throughput communication satellite. This was the final trip for the B1049 first stage...
Three spacewalks from two space stations in just two days…but a fourth one is called off
During the period 15-17 November, astronauts, cosmonauts and taikonauts (Chinese astronauts) all took part in extra vehicular activity (EVA) on three spacewalks. Both the International Space Station (ISS) and the Chinese Space Station (Tiandong) were involved. On 15...
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