At 2253 GMT on 8 August a Long March 2C (CZ-2C) rocket successfully carried the HJ-2F satellite into sun-synchronous LEO. The mission took place from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, Northern China. The satellite Huanjing Jianzai 2F is a SAR satellite reportedly...
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2 FT Block 5 rocket from Vandenberg, California, USA (Pad SLC-4E), 0357 GMT on 8 August 2023. The vehicle was carrying 15 v2 Mini Starlink satellites as part of Starlink Group 6-20 for the second generation constellation. The...
At 2030 GMT on 7 August 2023, a Soyuz 2-1b Fregat successfully launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Northern Russia carrying the Glonass K2-13 military navigation satellite to its operating position in Medium Earth Orbit (MEO). Glonass-K2 (Uragan K2) spacecraft...
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2 FT Block 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA, at 0241 GMT on 7 August 2023. The vehicle was carrying Starlink Group 6-8, a total of 22 v2 Mini Starlink satellites for the second generation constellation. The reusable...
A Long March 4C (CZ-4C) rocket successfully launched the 2.8 metric ton Feng Yun-3F (sometimes written as Fengyun-3F) meteorological satellite into an 828 km sun-synchronous orbit from Jiuquan at 0347 GMT on 3 August 2023. The launch on behalf of the China State...
A SpaceX Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket successfully launched the communications satellite Galaxy 37 (aka Horizons-4) communications satellite at 0500 GMT on 3 August 2023. The launch took place from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA, using the SpaceX-leased SLC-40 pad. ...