The United States Space Force (USSF) on 9 November 2022 confirmed that it had ordered a second Weather System Follow-on Microwave (WSF-M) from manufacturer Ball Aerospace. This contract modification is worth US$78.2 million. This satellite has a projected launch date...
Under the shadow of the much publicised NASA SLS launch a commercial Chinese rocket has carried five satellites into LEO. The mission lifted-off at 0620 GMT on 16 November from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. Onboard the Ceres-1 (Gushenxing-1) small launch...
AST SpaceMobile, the company building a Bluebird satellite relay constellation that is directly accessible by mobile phones, has announced the successful deployment of the 64.4 square meter communications array on its test satellite, BlueWalker 3 (BW3), in orbit. This...
NASA’s CAPSTONE (Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment) mission achieved its main objective when the 12U CubeSat spacecraft made a braking burn to enter a near-rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO) around the Moon. It completed...
China launched the Tianzhou-5 resupply mission at 0203 GMT on 12 November. The freighter was propelled into orbit by a Long March 7 (CZ-7) rocket lifting-off from the Wenchang Space Launch Site, Hainan Island. Once placed into orbit the freighter conducted a two hour...
The US Space Force successfully recovered its X-37B on the Orbital Test Vehicle-6 (OTV-6) mission, after it deorbited and landed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility at 1022 GMT on 12 November after a mission lasting 908 days. OTV-6 was the first...
