A Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket launched 54 Starlink v1.5 satellites as part of Group 4-36 at 1451 GMT on 20 October 2022 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The SLC-40 pad was used. The reusable booster B1062 on its tenth flight, landed down range on the drone ship A...
China launched a Long March 2D (CZ-2D) rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center on 14 October. The mission which lifted-off at 1912 GMT carried three satellites to LEO. The mission reportedly launched the second Yaogan 36 triplet of satellites. These spacecraft...
An Angara 1.2 small Russian launch vehicle was launched from Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Northern Russia at 1955 GMT on 15 October 2022. The vehicle was carrying Cosmos 2560 (Kosmos 2560), a classified Russian military satellite. The satelliite is thought to be the fourth...
Having previously launched Galaxy 33 and 34 on towards their geostationary Earth orbit (GEO) final positions the week before, this time SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 from Cape Canaveral, Florida USA at 0522 GMT on 15 October 2022 carrying...
At 2253 GMT on 12 October China conducted a Long March 2C/3 (CZ-2C/3) launch that was a surprise to many Western observers. The mission from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in Northern China carried the HJ-2E (Huanjing Jianzai 2E) Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)...
The development of the Vulcan Centaur rocket by the United Launch Alliance (ULA) is a long running saga. So there was no surprise when ULA CEO Tory Bruno announced that it has been delayed again, this time to the first quarter 2023. Again, the cause is delays to the...
