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)....
It was reported to Seradata during April that Azersky – the former SPOT 7 Earth-imaging satellite – had failed in orbit in March. Initially Azercosmos – the Azerbaijan space agency – refused to comment on the failure. However, later AzerNews confirmed the report,...
Blue Origin has noted the failure mechanism which doomed the unmanned flight New Shepard NS-23 suborbital spacecraft. After its lift off at 1401 GMT on 12 September 2022 at T+ 1 minute 5 seconds the New Shepard booster (NS Propulsion Module Tail 3) suffered an...
The Terran 1 rocket, built by Relativity Space, failed to achieve orbit after suffering an ignition anomaly with its second stage during its maiden launch. As it was purely a test mission, the rocket was not carrying a satellite payload or releasable fairing. The...
Japan faces a setback in its ambitions to compete commercially with its new H3 expendable rocket after the H3-22S failed on its first flight due to second stage failure. The solid rocket boosters and the liquid propellent first stage appeared to work well as did the...
