A Proton M/Blok DM-03 launched the AngoSat 2 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam, Kazahkstan on 12 October at 1500 GMT. The launch was for the Angolan National Space Programme Office which owns the satellite. The Russian-built AngoSat 2 satellite...
The NASA DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) experimental asteroid collision mission has been declared a major scientific success. This was after telescopes on Earth ascertained that the orbit of the 160-metre-wide asteroid, Dimorphos, had been significantly...
An Epsilon-2 Adv CLPS rocket was launched from Uchinoura, Kagoshima, Japan, at 0050 GMT on 12 October 2022, but failed to achieve orbit after its second stage was detected to have a fault during flight. When it became apparent that orbit would not be achieved, the...
After being in a slow spin for nearly a month, NASA’s CAPSTONE (Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment) mission to the Moon was confirmed as being recovered to full three axis control on 7 October. Advanced Space,...
At 2343 GMT on 8 October, China launched a Long March 2D (CZ-2D) rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center to LEO. The payload carried was the ASO-S (Advanced Space-borne Solar Observatory) solar observation mission which is intended to monitor the sun 24 hours...
Rocket Lab successfully launched its Electron KS rocket at 1709 GMT on 7 October from Onenui Station, Māhia Peninsula New Zealand. The rocket carried the GAzelle satellite, previously known as OTB 3. GAzelle, developed by General Atomics, carried an Argos...
