Launching from Xichang Satellite Launch Center, China, a Long March 2c (CZ-2C) rocket has placed four payloads into LEO (Low Earth Orbit). Lift-off took place at 1519 GMT, 26 October. The primary payload was the three satellites making up the seventh Yaogan Weixing-30...
A mission from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Northern Russia, saw Soyuz 2-1B rocket with Fregat-M upper-stage carry a satellite to Medium Earth Orbit (MEO). The lift-off occurred at 1908 GMT, 25 October. The payload is part of the Russian satellite navigation...
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 vehicle carrying 60 Starlink satellites from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA at 1531 GMT on 24 October. The launch was the 15th flight of Starlink satellites and the 14th of fully operational ones. The launch vehicle’s...
Kleos Space has ordered its second four-unit CubeSat cluster from Dutch-manufacturer Innovative Solutions in Space (ISISpace). Kleos is intending to launch a constellation to provide a radio-frequency, geo-location reconnaissance product. This deal will see ISISpace...
NASA has formally awarded “Tipping Point” contracts worth a total of US$370 million to 14 firms to demonstrate new technologies for lunar and Mars exploration. Possibly due to criticism that cryogenic storage and refueling technology would not be ready to make a human...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security – Regolith EXplorer) space probe successfully descended, matched the asteroid Bennu’s rotational speed and landed on it on 20 October. The manoeuvre was a touch-and-go...
