A SpaceX operated Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket sent Starlink group 7-8 into orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, USA at 0803 GMT on 8 December 2023. The group consisted of 22 v2 Mini spacecraft for the second...
At 0507 GMT on 7 December 2023, 23 v2 Mini communications spacecraft were launched into orbit from the Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket. The are part of the SpaceX Starlink second generation...
The four-stage solid rocket Jielong-3 (aka Smart Dragon-3) was launched from a launch platform in the sea off the coast near Yangjiang, Guangdong Province, China, at 1924 GMT on 5 December 2023 carrying the Weixing Hulianwang Jishu Shiyan 03 (WHJS-03) satellite for...
ESA has awarded a development contract to the UK arm of Airbus Defence and Space (Airbus DS) to create key technologies to allow the TRUTHS (Traceable Radiometry Underpinning Terrestrial- and Helio-Studies) satellite mission to measure solar radiation and the...
A Ceres-1 rocket built by commercial Chinese company Galactic Energy has carried two satellites into LEO. The launch took place at 2333 GMT, 4 December, from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China. On-board were Xingchi-1A and Jihneg-1 (Tainyan-16) a...
The Small SAR Technology Experimental Payload (S-STEP), a 100 kg Synthetic Aperture Radar satellite owned by Hanwha Systems, was launched into a 650 km Sun-synchronous orbit by the maiden flight of South Korea’s new solid rocket called TLV (Test Launch Vehicle). TLV...
