An Indian PSLV-CA (Core Alone) variant rocket lifted off from the Sriharikota launch site at 0101 GMT on 30 July 2023. Aboard were seven satellites. The main payload was the DS-SAR – a 352 kg radar satellite which is operated by DS Engineering for the...
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy (v1.2FT Block 5) rocket launched what is, to date, the heaviest ever communications satellite on its way to geostationary orbit: Echostar 24/Jupiter 3 on behalf of Echostar – Hughes Network Systems. The launch, which had been delayed for a...
The Boeing Crew Flight Test (CFT) – the first crewed mission of CST-100 Starliner, Boeing’s partially reusable spacecraft – was supposed to fly two NASA astronauts, Barry E. Wilmore (spacecraft commander) and Sunita Williams (pilot) on a week long test...
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA at 0401 GMT on 28 July 2023. The vehicle was carrying Starlink Group 6-7, a total of 22 v2 Mini Starlink satellites for the second generation constellation. The B1062...
US newspace company Astranis signed a deal to provide dedicated service to the Philippines by selling a small broadband geostationary orbit satellite to a telco in the country. The satellite, which will be the first dedicated to provide internet connection services...
Launching at 2002 GMT on 26 July, a Chinese Long March 2D (CZ-2D) rocket has carried three satellites into LEO. This mission lifted-off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, China. The satellites make up Yaogan 36 Group 05 and consist of two optical and one radar...
