Following international bidding, South Korea has settled on an Arianespace Vega C rocket to launch Kompsat 6 (Arirang 6), the South Korean vice-minister for Science, Oh Tae-seog, announced on 1 February. The contract replaces one previously held with International...
A Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 was launched from the Vandenberg Space Force base in California at 1615 GMT on 31 January. Aboard was a batch of 49 Starlink satellites (Group 2-6) for the SpaceX Starlink constellation. ION-SCV 9 (SCV 0009) — InOrbit NOW Satellite Carrier...
On 26 January 2023, at 0932 GMT, a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 successfully launched 56 Starlink Gen2 satellites from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Their intended orbit is eventually into a circular orbit at an altitude of 530 km,...
Kicking off its launch year, Japan has placed a radar reconnaissance satellite into near-500 km sun-synchronous low Earth orbit (LEO). The IGS RADAR-7 satellite was launched at 0150 GMT on 26 January by a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) H-2A202 rocket. This mission...
European launch service company Isar Aerospace and US-based Spaceflight, which offers rides to orbit for satellites, have announced a multi-launch services agreement using Isar Aerospace launch vehicles. Under the agreement, Spaceflight secured one dedicated Spectrum...
After another day’s delay due to bad weather, a Rocket Lab Electron KS rocket successfully launched three 30 kg Hawk satellites (Hawk 6A, 6B and 6C) into a 550 km low Earth orbit as part of the HawkEye 360 commercial radio frequency analysis constellation from...
