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USSF confirms order of second WSF-M satellite from Ball Aerospace
The United States Space Force (USSF) on 9 November 2022 confirmed that it had ordered a second Weather System Follow-on Microwave (WSF-M) from manufacturer Ball Aerospace. This contract modification is worth US$78.2 million. This satellite has a projected launch date...
Commercial Chinese rocket Ceres-1 carries five Jilin-1 EO sats to orbit
Under the shadow of the much publicised NASA SLS launch a commercial Chinese rocket has carried five satellites into LEO. The mission lifted-off at 0620 GMT on 16 November from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. Onboard the Ceres-1 (Gushenxing-1) small launch...
SLS finally flies….sending Artemis I’s Orion spacecraft on its way to the Moon…as SpaceX gets another lunar lander order
After a series of delays, including one caused by Hurricane Nicole, Artemis I’s Orion spacecraft finally lifted off from Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida, USA. The SLS (Space Launch System) rocket was launched at 0647 GMT on 16 November with its...
Chinese Yaogan 34-03 remote sensing sat is successfully launched by Long March 4C
The Chinese optical remote sensing satellite Yaogan 34-03 satellite was launched on a Long March 4C (CZ-4C) rocket from Jiuquan launch site at 0138 GMT on 15 November 2022. The satellite is believed to have been built by SAST - Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight...
BlueWalker 3 satellite unfurls largest ever commercial phased array in orbit
AST SpaceMobile, the company building a Bluebird satellite relay constellation that is directly accessible by mobile phones, has announced the successful deployment of the 64.4 square meter communications array on its test satellite, BlueWalker 3 (BW3), in orbit. This...
CAPSTONE enters Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit planned for the lunar Gateway space station
NASA’s CAPSTONE (Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment) mission achieved its main objective when the 12U CubeSat spacecraft made a braking burn to enter a near-rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO) around the Moon. It completed...
Tianzhou-5 freighter launched by China to resupply its space station…after Tianzhou-4 leaves to release small satellite before its re-entry burn-up
China launched the Tianzhou-5 resupply mission at 0203 GMT on 12 November. The freighter was propelled into orbit by a Long March 7 (CZ-7) rocket lifting-off from the Wenchang Space Launch Site, Hainan Island. Once placed into orbit the freighter conducted a two hour...
US Space Force X-37B/OTV-6 unmanned mini-space plane lands after 908 days in orbit
The US Space Force successfully recovered its X-37B on the Orbital Test Vehicle-6 (OTV-6) mission, after it deorbited and landed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility at 1022 GMT on 12 November after a mission lasting 908 days. OTV-6 was the first...
SpaceX Falcon 9 B1051 first stage bids farewell with Galaxy 31 and 32 launch
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 launch vehicle carrying a pair of communication satellites from Cape Canaveral, USA at 1606 GMT on 12 November. The vehicle carried Galaxy 31 and 32, a pair of C-band communication satellites to a super-synchronous...
China launches Long March 6A carrying Yunhai 3 successfully to orbit…but upper stage then explodes causing debris cloud
The Chinese successfully launched a Long March 6A (CZ-6A) from Taiyan Satellite Launch Centre, China, at 2252 GMT on 11 November. The vehicle was carrying Yunhai 3, a Chinese weather and atmospheric research satellite. Officially owned by China Academy of Sciences...
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