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Tianzhou 3 cargo ship undocks from Chinese Space Station
Cargo spacecraft Tianzhou 3 successfully undocked from the Chinese Space Station's forward port on 17 July 2022 at 0259 GMT. According to Chinese space authorities, Tianzhou 3 "will re-enter under ground control at an opportune time". The re-supply vessel originally...
L3Harris and Northrop Grumman get contracts to build 14 Tracking Layer (Tranche 1) satellites apiece
The US Space Development agency has awarded two contracts to build 28 infra-red wide-field-of-view tracking satellites for its new Tracking Layer constellation, aimed at detecting and tracking ballistic and manoeuvring hypersonic missile flights. The Tracking Layer...
Raytheon buys UK Space Situational Awareness specialist NORSS but looks to Star Wars lasers to counter drone menace on Earth
The US defence firm Raytheon which is moving away from what it was most famous for air launched missiles - especially the long-standing AIM-9 Sidewinder family - is now fully engaged in space. During the Farnborough International Airshow 2022, it was announced that...
Chinese Long March 2C successfully launches SAR satellite pair
China launched a Long March 2C/3 (CZ-2C/3) vehicle from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre, China at 2257 GMT on 15 July 2022. The vehicle carried SuperView Neo 2-01 and 2-02 (aka Siwei Gaojing 3 and 4), a pair of Earth observation satellites, to a Sun-Synchronous low...
SpaceX launches 53 Group 4-22 Starlink satellites using Falcon 9 rocket
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral, USA at 1420 GMT on 17 July 2022. The vehicle was carrying 53 Starlink satellites as part of the Group 4-22 set for the Starlink constellation. The B1051 reusable first stage, flying on...
Analysis: Putin removes Roscosmos head Dmitry Rogozin from office…then decides to exit ISS
Dmitry Rogozin, the controversial head of Russian space agency Roscosmos, has been removed from office by Russia’s President Vladimir Putin. Deputy Prime Minister Yury Borisov has replaced him. It is not known if Rogozin was fired or whether Putin has other plans for...
Falcon 9 launches Dragon CRS-25 cargo freighter to ISS (Corrected)
A Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket was successfully launched from the Cape Canaveral launch site on the coast of Florida at 0044 GMT on 15 July 2022. It was launching the Dragon CRS-25 freighter spacecraft mission, aka SpX-25 (Dragon C208 reusable craft on its third...
European Vega-C rocket successfully launches on maiden flight
After a short technical delay, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) new Vega-C rocket, operated by Arianespace, was successfully launched at 1313 GMT on 13 July from Guiana Space Centre, Kourou. The primary payload, Lares 2, a laser reflectivity satellite to test...
Chinese data relay satellite Tianlian blasts off
China successfully launched Tianlian 2-03, its data relay communications satellite, at 1630 GMT on 12 July. The satellite was onboard the Long March 3B/E (CZ-3B/E) rocket, which was launched from Xichang Satellite Launch Centre, China. Tianlian 2-03 is the seventh...
US spy satellite NROL-162 launches on Rocket Lab Electron
Rocket Lab successfully launched an Electron carrying a classified US mission from Māhia Peninsula, New Zealand, at 0630 GMT on 13 July. The Electron was carrying NROL-162: the first of two responsive space missions, also known as “Wise One Looks Ahead”, for the...
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