At 0346 GMT on 26 May a Rocket Lab Electron KS rocket launched itself on a mission for NASA from the Mahia pad 1B in New Zealand. On board were a pair of TROPICS spacecraft: TROPICS SV-03 and TROPICS SV-07. The spacecraft were deployed into a 556 x 537 km orbit at...
At 0800 GMT on 21 May China successfully launched a Long March 2C (CZ-2C) rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. The mission placed three satellites into LEO for two Chinese universities: Luojia 2-01, a SAR microsatellite for Wuhan University and Aomen...
ESA’s JUICE (JUpiter ICy-moon Explorer) mission, built by Airbus, which is planned to make detailed observations of Jupiter and its three large ocean-bearing moons, has managed to finally deploy the 16 m radar antenna for the Radar for Icy Moons Exploration (RIME)....
NASAs TROPICS 5 and TROPICS 6, having originally been planned to be launched on a completely different rocket (the launch was moved from an Astra Rocket 3 after a launch failure destroyed an earlier TROPICS pair), and then launched from a new location (New Zealand...
Lunar lander Hakuto-R is feared to have crashed on the surface of its destination after communication with the Japanese spacecraft was lost just moments before its planned touchdown, at around 1640 GMT on 25 April. The lander had been in communication with the Mission...
After Flight VA260 was delayed by one day due to the weather, the Ariane 5 ECA+ rocket successfully launched the JUICE (JUpiter ICy-moon Explorer) spacecraft onto its interplanetary trajectory on 14 April from Guiana Space Centre, Kourou, French Guiana at 1214 GMT....
