Rocket Lab successfully launched an Electron rocket from Māhia Peninsula, New Zealand, at 0955 GMT on 28 June, to an initial low Earth parking orbit. The Electron was carrying CAPSTONE (Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation...
At 2150 GMT on 22 June 2022, two communications satellites MEASAT 3D and GSAT-24 were successfully launched on the first Ariane 5 launch of 2022. Before the launch of the Ariane 5 ECA+ had been delayed by 47 minutes by ground systems issues at the launch site in...
The Italian firm D-Orbit’s ION Satellite Carrier orbital transfer and delivery vehicle has had a ride booked for it on the yet-to-fly Isar Aerospace rocket. The launch is expected to take place in 2023 or 2024 with the spacecraft carrying several cubesats for...
A Kuaizhou-1A small solid rocket launch vehicle was launched from the Jiuquan launch site in the Gobi Desert, Northern China, at 0208 GMT on 22 June, carrying the Tianxing-1 satellite into orbit. It marks a successful return to operations after a second stage launch...
An attempt to raise the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) using a rocket engine on the attached Cygnus NG-17 (Piers Sellars) cargo freighter spacecraft failed at 1520 GMT on 20 June. The spacecraft, which had been docked at the Earth-facing port of the...
At 0700 GMT, 21 June, the Nuri (KSLV-II) launch vehicle lifted-off from the Naro Space Center, South Korea. This success marks the second test flight for the indigenous South Korean rocket, after the late-flight failure of its first launch in October 2021. The mission...
