At 0540 GMT on 31 August, SpaceX launched 46 Starlink satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. This Starlink Group 3-4 mission was the 39 orbital mission and the 25 dedicated Starlink mission so far this year by SpaceX. The first stage, B1063 on its...
At 0341 GMT on 28 August SpaceX launched a batch of 54 Starlink satellites to LEO. The mission utilised its Falcon 9 rocket and lifted-off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The mission had been planned to utilise the neighbouring Kennedy Space Center facility however, due...
Global satellite operator Intelsat revealed, on 18 August, that it had lost control of its direct broadcast satellite Galaxy 15, blaming geomagnetic storms. It now looks like the operator has also lost control of the satellite payload which shut itself down...
The European Space Agency (ESA) finally cut the cord on its Copernicus Sentinel-1B satellite earlier this month. The decision to end the mission, announced on 3 August, came after months of attempts to save Sentinel-1B after it suffered an anomaly in its electronics...
Launching from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, Shanxi, China, at 0301 GMT on 24 August, a Long March 2D (CZ-2D) rocket has placed an Earth Observation satellite into LEO. The satellite is identified as Beijing 3B and is a follow-on unit to Beijing 3A – launched...
China conducted a Kuaizhou-1A launch at 0236 GMT on 23 August, from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center. The payload, identified as Chuangxin-16 (CX-16), was successfully carried to LEO by the rocket. The satellite was reportedly built by Innovation Academy for...
