Launching at 1444 GMT on 21 February a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has carried 46 Starlink satellites to LEO (Low Earth Orbit). The mission took place from Cape Canaveral, the USA, and was launched into a south-easterly direction. The launch carried three satellites fewer...
At 1740 GMT on 19 February 2022, an Antares 230+ rocket carrying Cygnus NG-17 successfully lifted off from Wallops Island USA . The spacecraft was named S.S. Piers Sellars after the late and much admired astronaut Piers Sellers who died of pancreatic cancer in...
The cargo craft Progress MS-19 (ISS-80P) was launched to the International Space Station (ISS) on a resupply mission on a Soyuz 2-1a carrier rocket. The launch lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan at 0425 GMT on 15 February 2022. Update...
India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV-XL on flight PSLV-C52 injected Earth Observation Satellite EOS-04 (aka RISAT 1A) into its intended sun synchronous polar orbit of 529 km altitude some 18 minutes after its launch at 0029 GMT from Satish Dhawan Space Centre...
Arianespace successfully launched a Soyuz 2-ST-B/Fregat M vehicle from the Sinnamary launch site near Kourou in French Guiana at 1809 GMT on 10 February 2022. The Europeanised Soyuz vehicle was carrying 34 satellites in service of the OneWeb constellation. The mission...
The Astra Space Rocket 3.3 (Astra Rocket 3.3), which had suffered a post-ignition launch abort before lift-off a few days previously, has failed to achieve orbit after its launch at 2000 GMT on 10 February from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The LV0008 launch took place...
