Launching on 22 and 23 July 2023 two rockets from China carried a total of six satellites into low Earth orbit (LEO) or very low Earth orbit (VLEO). The first mission lifted-off at 0507 GMT on 22 July and saw commercial Chinese company Galactic Energy using its...
At 0050 GMT on 24 July a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket successfully launched 22 Starlink v2 Mini satellites from Cape Canaveral, Florida, as Group 6-6 for SpaceX’s second generation Starlink constellation. The pad used was Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40). The...
At 0320 GMT on 20 July, a Kuaizhou-1A rocket lifted-off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, North-western China, carrying four satellites in to LEO. The satellites are believed to be GNSS occultation units for meteorological purposes for Chinese entity Xiyong...
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 part-reusable rocket from Vandenberg, California, USA at 0409 GMT on 20 July 2023. The launch vehicle was carrying Starlink Group 6-15 to orbit: a total of 15 v2-Mini Starlink communications satellites for...
Rocket Lab achieved a successful launch – dubbed “Baby Come Back” – with an Electron KS at 0127 GMT on 18 July, from Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand. The launch vehicle carried seven satellites into orbit: a Telesat LEO 3 Vantage experimental communications satellite –...
Following its launch from Cape Canveral, Florida, USA, the reusable Falcon 9 stage B1060 has joined B1058 on 16 successful launches and landings – the current record for SpaceX. It successfully landed on the drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas located downrange...
