SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket from the SLC-40 pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA at 0710 GMT on 12 June 2023. The vehicle was carrying Starlink Group 5-11, a total of 52 of the smaller v1.5 Starlink satellites. Starlink Group 5-11 is...
At 0410 GMT on 7 June 2023, the second launch of the Lijian-1 (Kinetica-1) rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, Inner Mongolia, China reportedly put 26 satellites into orbit. This rocket built by CAS Space (partially owned by the Chinese Academy of...
A Chinese CASIC-operated Kuaizhou-1A solid rocket launch vehicle was launched at 0235 GMT on 9 June 2023 from the Jiuquan launch site in Inner Mongolia. Aboard was the Longjiang-3 high-bandwidth communications test satellite. The satellite is built by the Harbin...
The SpaceX operated Dragon CRS-28 cargo ship on behalf of NASA was launched by a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket at 1547 GMT on 5 June 2023 on its way to the International Space Station (ISS). The launch took place from the Kennedy Space Center’s Pad 39A. ...
Shenzhou 15, with its crew of three (Fei Junlong, Deng Qingming and Zhang Lu) aboard, undocked from the forward port of the Tianhe module of the Chinese Space Station (CSS Tiangong) at 1329 GMT on 3 June 2023. After making a re-entry burn Shenzhou 15 landed in Inner...
Russian communications satellite Express AM-5 (Ekspress-AM 5) has suffered a thermal control loop/heat pipe failure, Russianspaceweb.com reported at 0130 GMT on 3 June. The official report on 5 June said that part of its Ku-band communications payload had to be turned...
