SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA at 0619 GMT on 19 May 2023. The vehicle was carrying Starlink Group 6-3, a total of 22 second generation Starlink satellites. The reusable B1076 first stage (on its 5th...
Launching at 0249 GMT on 17 May a CALT Long March 3B (CZ-3B) rocket has carried a Chinese BeiDou-3 satellite navigation satellite into orbit. The mission lifted-off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Southern China. The BeiDou-3 unit, identified as BeiDou-3...
ESA’s JUICE (JUpiter ICy-moon Explorer) mission, built by Airbus, which is planned to make detailed observations of Jupiter and its three large ocean-bearing moons, has managed to finally deploy the 16 m radar antenna for the Radar for Icy Moons Exploration (RIME)....
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA at 0503 GMT on 14 May 2023. The launch vehicle was carrying 56 communications satellites for the SpaceX Starlink constellation’s Group 5-9. The reusable B1067 first...
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket from Vandenberg, California, USA at 2009 GMT on 10 May 2023. The vehicle was carrying Starlink Group 2-9 (a 51 total Starlink v1.5 dsatellites). The reusable Falcon 9 B1075 first stage on its third flight...
Swiss debris company ClearSpace has signed a launch contract with Arianespace to use the Vega C launcher for its first debris removal mission. The ClearSpace-1 mission will be launched in the second half of 2026 from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. It will...
