After a last-second abort delayed a launch the day before, start-up Firefly Aerospace launched the Firefly Alpha from Vandenberg, US, at 0701 GMT on 1 October 2022. The vehicle carried seven payloads to orbit: Serenity II, TechEdSat-15 and five picosats, Genesis-G and...
French new-space company Unseenlabs has ordered another six 6U-CubeSats from nanosatellite manufacturer and operator GomSpace, to expand its growing fleet. The six new satellites, which will be modelled on an upgraded platform jointly developed with Unseenlabs, will...
The month of September 2022 saw a spate of small satellite orders (plus some shared rides) made. These included: US Start-up Rogue Space Systems is planning a pair of satellites dubbed a cubesat-class spacecraft dubbed Space Robot to service and repair small...
China launched to space rockets on 26 September 2022. The first up was the Long March 2D/2 (CZ-2D/2) Y68 launch of three Yaogan-36 Group 1 satellites which were launched at 1338 GMT from the Xichang launch site. Yaogan 36-01-A and B payloads were developed by CASC,...
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA at 2332 GMT on 24 September 2022. The launch vehicle was carrying 52 other Starlink satellites (Group 4-35) for the SpaceX owned communications satellite constellation. The...
The Chinese successfully launched a Kuaizhou 1A vehicle from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre, Shanxi Province, China at 2255 GMT on 24 September 2022. The vehicle was carrying Shiyan 14 & 15, two classified Chinese satellites.
