After a two-hour delay due to a problem with the Liquid Oxygen storage/conditioning, Astra Space launched its Astra Rocket 3.3 (flight LV0010) from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA at 1743 GMT on 12 June 2022. But all did not subsequently go to plan. The lift off, fairing...
The cause of the 12 August 2021 launch failure of the GSLV 2 CUSP 1 launch vehicle, which lost the EOS-03 satellite (formally called GISAT 1 GEO Imaging Satellite), has been revealed by India’s space agency ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation). After a...
The reasons have been revealed for the 20 February launch failure of the Astra Space Astra Rocket 3.3 (flight LV0008), which lost four small satellites (BAMA 1, INCA, QubeSat, RS-S1) on a NASA sponsored launch. Following a successful lift-off from the Cape Canaveral,...
The Astra Space Rocket 3.3 (Astra Rocket 3.3), which had suffered a post-ignition launch abort before lift-off a few days previously, has failed to achieve orbit after its launch at 2000 GMT on 10 February from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The LV0008 launch took place...
The Chinese telecommunications satellite Chinasat-6A (aka Sinosat 6) is likely to be declared a total loss for insurance purposes after the satellite failed to recover from the attitude control issues it has been suffering since early December. The satellite, which...
While for the most part SpaceX Starlink satellites have proved to be reliable – or at least reliable enough to begin commercial telecommunications service – astrophysicist and space orbital analyst, Jonathan McDowell, has noted that the satellites launched on Starlink...
