SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 from Vandenberg, USA at 1819 GMT on 01 December 2023. The vehicle was carrying Korea 425 Project EO/IR Sat for South Korea. There were 25 spacecraft on the flight in all. There were a total of 25 spacecraft on board this...
Egypt’s Earth observation satellite Misr-Sat-2 was launched on a Long March-2C/3 (CZ-2C/3) rocket from Jiuquan at 0410 GMT on 4 December 2023. The launch also carried two small Xingchi-1 02A and 02B (aka Starpool-02A and -02B).satellites for Beijing’s...
Russia’s space agency/space conglomerate successfully launched a Soyuz 2.1a launch vehicle from Baikonur Cosmodrome, near Tyuratam, Kazakhstan at 0925 GMT on 1 December 2023. The launch vehicle was carrying Progress MS-25, a resupply mission to the International...
The Roscosmos-operated Progress MS-23 cargo ship undocked from the International Space Station’s (ISS) Poisk module at 0755 GMT on 29 November. It made its deorbit burn at 1102 GMT and re-entered to burn up over the Pacific east of New Zealand at about 1145 GMT,...
There were few major announcements related to satellite and launch orders during November. Perhaps the biggest was actually a non-order, but rather the withdrawal of Northrop Grumman from tendering for the UK Ministry of Defence’s Skynet 6 communications...
New space and even established space companies sometimes have to endure difficult periods when sufficient revenues are simply not there, or do not come in fast enough. At moments like these cash is king. To survive, firms may have to resort to emergency funding, or...
