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SpaceX Falcon 9 launches 46 Starlink Group 3-1 satellites successfully
Amid foggy weather a Falcon 9 carrying 46 Starlink satellites (Starlink v1.5 Group 3-1) was successfully launched by SpaceX from Vandenberg, USA, on 11 July. Following the launch the B1063 first stage successfully landed on the drone barge, named “Of Course I Still...
SpaceX successfully completes 50th Starlink launch on Falcon 9
A Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket carrying 53 Group 4-21 Starlink satellites has been successfully launched from Cape Canaveral, USA by SpaceX. The launch took place at 1311 GMT on 7 July. This was the 50th Starlink carrying launch of a Falcon 9. Following the launch...
Russia launches fourth Glonass-K navsat using Soyuz 2-1B Fregat M rocket
A Russian Soyuz 2-1B Fregat-M vehicle successfully launched the Glonass K1-4 navigation satellite from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Northern Russia at 0918 GMT on 7 June. Glonass K1-4 (aka Glonass K16L) is the fourth Glonass-K upgraded Russian navigation spacecraft...
Airbus wins US$692 million contract to provide buses for US T1TL military constellation
Airbus US Space and Defense has been picked to provide 42 satellite bus platforms to Northrop Grumman for the US Space Development Agency’s (SDA) Tranche 1 Transport Layer (T1TL) constellation. T1TL is a low Earth orbit (LEO) mesh network of small satellites, which...
CAPSTONE suffers communications woes as it approaches Moon…but they were only temporary
NASA has reported a serious communications issue with its CAPSTONE mission, which was intended to test an orbit for future lunar exploration plans. Following its launch by an Electron rocket on 28 June, after a series of burns, the Lunar Photon converted kick stage...
Virgin Orbit launches seven US Space Force satellites in first night-time launch
Following the lift off of carrier aircraft "Cosmic Girl" at 0549 GMT from the Mojave Air and Space Port, California on 2 July, and after flying out over the Pacific, Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne rocket was air-dropped at 0653 GMT with the first engine igniting soon...
Atlas V launches two USSF payloads: WFOV and USSF-12 2 (Corrected)
The United Launch Alliance (ULA) successfully launched an Atlas V 541/RL10C-1/GEM-63 launch vehicle from Cape Canaveral, USA at 2315 GMT on 1 July 2022 on behalf of the United Space Force's Space Systems Command's USSF-12 mission. The rocket was carrying two payloads...
Aspiring launch provider Relativity Space is selected by OneWeb to provide launches for its Gen 2 satellites
OneWeb signed a "launch services agreement for multiple launches" with upcoming American launch provider Relativity Space on 30 June. According to the announcement, the agreement includes an undisclosed number of future missions utilizing its in-development,...
ISRO successfully launches PSLV-C53 with solar cell covered last stage becoming a satellite in its own right (Corrected)
India's space agency and industrial conglomerate, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), has successfully launched its PSLV CA rocket on flight C53 from the Sriharikota (Satish Dhawan Space Centre). The launch, under ISRO commercial subsidiary NewSpace India...
SpaceX launches C-band telecomms satellite SES-22
At 2104 GMT on 29 June, a SpaceX Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket was successfully launched from Cape Canaveral, USA. It carried SES-22, a C-band telecommunications satellite, into a 35,627 x 310 km at 16.5 degrees inclination Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO) on its...
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