Arcturus suffers unrelated solar array drive troubles GEO satellite operator Viasat Inc has finally confirmed that its recently launched Viasat-3 Americas High Throughput Ka-band communications satellite has suffered a serious blow. The satellite failed to properly...
Launcher, the spacecraft delivery company, has reported that not all went to plan following the successful lift-off of its Orbiter SN3 delivery spacecraft on the SpaceX Falcon 9 Transporter-8 mission on 12 June. Orbiter SN3 apparently successfully separated from the...
Russian communications satellite Express AM-5 (Ekspress-AM 5) has suffered a thermal control loop/heat pipe failure, Russianspaceweb.com reported at 0130 GMT on 3 June. The official report on 5 June said that part of its Ku-band communications payload had to be turned...
I-Space (Japan) has reported the results of its investigation into the landing failure of its HAKUTO M1 lunar lander on 25 April 2023. At 1533 GMT the Hakuto M1 Lunar lander moved to a 25 x 100 km orbit and at perilune around 1627 GMT it began a braking burn to...
The Korean Aerospace and Research Institute (KARI) successfully launched the KSLV-II (NURI) from Naro Space Center, South Korea at 0924 GMT on 25 May 2023. The vehicle was carrying NEXTSat-2 plus seven other satellites to a 550 x 540 km Sun-synchronous low Earth orbit...
ESA’s JUICE (JUpiter ICy-moon Explorer) mission, built by Airbus, which is planned to make detailed observations of Jupiter and its three large ocean-bearing moons, has managed to finally deploy the 16 m radar antenna for the Radar for Icy Moons Exploration (RIME)....
