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Two Soyuz launches from across Russia place multiple satellites into orbit: two mystery inspectors, three Gonets-M comsats plus a Skif-D demosat
Two different Soyuz rocket versions flew from launch sites at either end of Russia on 21 and 22 October. The first mission occurred at 1920 GMT, 21 October and saw a Soyuz 2-1v mission fly from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in the North of Russia. The mission reportedly...
India renames its GSLV Mk 3 rocket LVM3 and then launches it successfully with 36 OneWeb satellites aboard
India’s space agency, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), successfully launched an LVM3-2 vehicle on a flight called LVM3 M2 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India, at 1837 GMT on 22 October 2022. The vehicle was carrying 36 other OneWeb...
SpaceX Falcon 9 launches 54 Starlinks in Group 4-36
A Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket launched 54 Starlink v1.5 satellites as part of Group 4-36 at 1451 GMT on 20 October 2022 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The SLC-40 pad was used. The reusable booster B1062 on its tenth flight, landed down range on the drone ship A...
Euclid and Hera missions are bounced off their Soyuz and Ariane 6 launches to be rescued by SpaceX
Now that the European Space Agency (ESA) has accepted that the Ariane 6 will not launch before late 2023, with knock-on effects on its later flights, and bearing in mind the unavailability of Soyuz rockets due to the War in Ukraine, the agency has decided to move two...
China launches second Yaogan 36 triplet
China launched a Long March 2D (CZ-2D) rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center on 14 October. The mission which lifted-off at 1912 GMT carried three satellites to LEO. The mission reportedly launched the second Yaogan 36 triplet of satellites. These spacecraft...
NASA’s Crew 4 returns to Earth on Crew Dragon
After a one day delay caused by bad weather at the landing site, The SpaceX operated Crew Dragon NASA Crew 4 (Freedom) space capsule undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) IDA-3 port at 1605 GMT on 14 October 2022 with astronauts with Kjell Lindgren,...
Angara 1.2 launches mystery small reconnaissance satellite for Russian military thought to be an MKA-R class
An Angara 1.2 small Russian launch vehicle was launched from Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Northern Russia at 1955 GMT on 15 October 2022. The vehicle was carrying Cosmos 2560 (Kosmos 2560), a classified Russian military satellite. The satelliite is thought to be the fourth...
Falcon 9 launches towards GEO again – this time carrying Hotbird 13F for Eutelsat
Having previously launched Galaxy 33 and 34 on towards their geostationary Earth orbit (GEO) final positions the week before, this time SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 from Cape Canaveral, Florida USA at 0522 GMT on 15 October 2022 carrying...
Surprise Chinese Long March 2C launch places HJ-2E SAR satellite into LEO
At 2253 GMT on 12 October China conducted a Long March 2C/3 (CZ-2C/3) launch that was a surprise to many Western observers. The mission from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in Northern China carried the HJ-2E (Huanjing Jianzai 2E) Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)...
First Vulcan launch is delayed again but it gets more payloads for its “risky” maiden flight
The development of the Vulcan Centaur rocket by the United Launch Alliance (ULA) is a long running saga. So there was no surprise when ULA CEO Tory Bruno announced that it has been delayed again, this time to the first quarter 2023. Again, the cause is delays to the...
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