Shenzhou 16 with crew, Commander Jing Haipeng, Gui Haichao and Zhu Yangzhu aboard, successfully undocked from the Tianhe nadir port of the Chinese Space Station at 1237 GMT on 30 October. The spacecraft completed a final fly-around the Chinese Space Station that had...
China successfully launched Shenzhou-17 at 0314 GMT on 26 October from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, on a Long March 2F/G launch vehicle. This crewed mission to the Chinese Space Station (CSS) – also known as Tiangong – carried three taikonauts into...
A SOYUZ 2-1B successfully launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia carrying the LOTOS-S1 No 8, an ELINT (Electronic Intelligence) military satellite, part of the Liana programme, to LEO on 27 October at 0600 GMT (time to be confirmed). The extra-large spacecraft,...
Roscosmos Expedition 70 cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub began their spacewalk (VKD-61) on 25 October. With the Poisk airlock depressurized from 1729 GMT, the cosmonauts opened the hatch at 1749 GMT. Their mission was to install a synthetic radar...
Launching at 2003 GMT on 24 October a Chinese Long March 2D rocket has carried a triplet of the Yaogan-39 series into LEO. The mission originated from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, China. These satellites make up the fourth Yaogan-39 triplet and are the second...
SpaceX conducted two Starlink launches over the weekend of 21/22 October 2023. The first took place at 0823 GMT on 21 October and saw a Falcon 9 rocket lift-off from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, and carry 21 Starlink sats into LEO. These satellites formed...
