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ULA Atlas V launch vehicle in “Lopsided” 511 configuration flies straight to put a pair of satellite GSSAP satellite snoopers into orbit
The Boeing/Lockheed Martin-owned launch provider, the United Launch Alliance (ULA), which mainly specialises in US military launches, successfully launched the first Atlas 511 vehicle from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, USA, at 1900 GMT on 21 January....
SpaceX launches second Starlink mission of the year, 13 days after the first
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 49 Starlink satellites from Kennedy Space Centre, Florida, USA. The flight lifted-off at 0203 GMT on 19 January, a two hour delay from its original target. This mission, like that of the previous launch on 6...
SpaceX launches first planned Transporter rideshare mission of 2022 carrying over 100 satellites
The SpaceX Transporter-3 rideshare mission launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 1525 GMT, 13 January carrying over 100 satellites. The launch was targeted to deliver its payloads into a circa~ 525 km, sun-synchronous LEO (inclined at 97.6 degrees). The mission...
Russian cosmonauts make spacewalk to work on Prichal module as usual ISS activity goes on
Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov, current commander of Expedition 66, and Peytr Dubrov made a spacewalk from the International Space Station (ISS) on 19 January to prepare the recently docked Prichal module to accept new Progress and new Soyuz crew-carrying craft...
ESA confirms that Sentinel 1B’s radar is still knocked out by power issue
Sentinel-1B, a key Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite of the ESA/EU Copernicus Earth observation and monitoring programme, has failed in orbit. On 23 December, its C-band SAR Interferometric radar mission for environmental monitoring was shut down after a power...
Long March 2D puts mysterious Shiyan-13 into orbit (Corrected)
A Chinese Long March 2D (CZ-2D) rocket built by SAST (Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology) and operated by the quasi-military CASC (China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp) put Shiyan-13 - officially a technology test satellite - into orbit at 0235 GMT on...
Virgin Orbit’s air-launched LauncherOne has third launch success in a row
The Virgin Orbit launch provider was celebrating its third launch success in a row of its air-launched LauncherOne rocket. The "Stage Zero" Boeing 747 (Cosmic Girl) carrier aircraft, with the LaunchOne rocket slung under the port wing, took off from the Mojave Air...
Intelsat orders two further software-defined GEO sats, but this time from Thales Alenia Space
Intelsat has ordered two geostationary (GEO) satellites with new “software-defined payloads” from Thales Alenia Space (TAS). The contract announced on 12 January outlined the two spacecraft, to be known as Intelsat 41 and 44, which are to be based on the new TAS Space...
Tianzhou-2 freighter is remotely undocked and redocked with Chinese Space Station
Taikonauts (Chinese astronauts) aboard the Chinese Space Station (CSS) conducted a manual remote undocking involving the unberthing from the forward port of the Tianhe-1 module at circa 2150 GMT on 7 January 2021 and moving it using the station's robot arm first...
SpaceX kicks off 2022 with a Starlink launch from Florida
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket at 2149 GMT on 6 January 2022 from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA. The vehicle was carrying 49 Starlink satellites to continue the growth of this constellation. These satellites are destined for the 53.2 degree...
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