As the first launch of its New Year (Year of the Rabbit), China has placed a communications satellite into orbit. At 1149 GMT on 23 February a Long March 3B (CZ-3B) rocket lifted-off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center and successfully carried Chinasat 26...
NASA selected Blue Origin to launch the two ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) spacecraft to study magnetosphere of Mars earlier this month. The contract was awarded as part of the Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare...
On the West Coast, SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket from the Vandenberg space base in California, USA, at 1912 GMT on 17 February. The rocket was carrying 51 Starlink satellites. The B1063 first stage landed on the drone barge “Of Course I...
Launcher’s Orbiter SN-1 delivery spacecraft has failed in orbit, according to the California based rocket developer. Its orbital transfer spacecraft/tug was launched on 3 January aboard the SpaceX Falcon 9 Transporter-6 rideshare flight. The rocket successfully...
With mere seconds left before its planned lift-off from the Tanegashima launch site, Japan aborted the maiden flight of its new expendable H3 rocket. The H3 flight, which used the H3-22S variant, was scheduled to launch at 0137:55 GMT on 17 February. The main stage’s...
A radiator leak of coolant on board the Soyuz MS-22 while it was attached to the International Space Station (ISS) in December 2022 was just the start of problems. Not only was a Cosmonaut spacewalk postponed, but an empty Soyuz spacecraft was even requested to be...
