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SpaceX launches Axiom AX-1 first all-commercial crew to ISS which returns to Earth late (Updated)
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 with the first privately crewed mission to the ISS from the Kennedy Space Centre, USA, at 1517 GMT on 8 April. The first stage of the Falcon 9 (B1062 on its fifth flight) successfully landed on the drone barge “A Shortfall of Gravitas”...
Japanese IHI Aerospace plans satellite launches for 2022 after clinching first commercial order
IHI Aerospace (IA) - the defence division of Japanese engineering corporation IHI Corporation - has signed a contract for the launch of two earth observation satellites later this year in its first commercial launch order. The two synthetic aperture Rader (SAR)...
China to launch an asteroid deflection mission in 2025 – but is it safe?
As part of its planetary defence strategy, China plans to launch an asteroid impactor mission to deflect the orbit of a near-Earth asteroid. The test mission, as reported by SpaceNews (Andrew Jones), will make close-up observations of a selected, potentially...
SLS Wet Dress Rehearsal is dogged by delays which eventually postpones it
The much delayed SLS Heavy-lift Launch Vehicle (HLV) due to take NASA astronauts back to the Moon won’t be going anywhere soon. Its Wet Dress Rehearsal (WDR) on launch pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Centre, starting on 4 April, suffered a series of setbacks that in the...
Rocket Lab Electron launch to carry HawkEye 360 satellites on its first launch from Wallops Island
Rocket Lab's Electron rocket will carry HawkEye 360 satellites when it embarks on its much anticipated first launch from Wallops Island, Virginia, USA, late this year. It has to date only launched from OneNui Station, on the Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand. As part of...
SpaceX Falcon 9 puts 53 Starlink (Group 4-14) satellites into orbit as reusable first stage makes 12th flight
After a two and half hour delay due to high ground winds, SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral, USA at 1751 GMT on 21 April 2022. The vehicle was carrying 53 Starlink satellites (Group 4-14) for the Starlink low Earth orbit...
Soyuz launch-stymied OneWeb taps ISRO for launches after similar SpaceX multi-launch deal
OneWeb, a UK-based low Earth orbit (LEO) communications satellite constellation operator, has announced that it has contracted with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to supply at least two launches. The UK government and the Indian conglomerate Bharti...
USA gives up anti-satellite interception tests and hopes others will follow
US Vice President Kamala Harris has announced that the USA will no longer actively test anti-satellite (ASAT) interceptions – at least not with direct ascent missile systems. The announcement, in a speech at the Vandenberg launch base in California, comes after...
Russian cosmonauts conduct spacewalk preparing way for Europe’s robot arm
Two Russian cosmonauts on board the International Space Station, Oleg Artemyev and Denis Matveev began a spacewalk from the Poisk airlock on the International Space Station on 18 April 2022. The airlock was depressurized at 1433 GMT and the hatch was opened at 1501...
Shenzhou 13 undocks and returns to Earth
At 1655 GMT on 15 April, the Chinese astronaut-carrying Shenzhou 13 spacecraft undocked from the nadir (or Earth-facing) port of the Chinese Space Station (CSS/Tianhe 1) with Commander Zhai Zhigang, Wang Yaping and Ye Guangfu onboard. The 182-day mission was the...
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