The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has fined communications satellite operator DISH Network US$150,000 for its failure to move its Echostar 7 satellite to either a fast re-entry or a graveyard orbit, in the first ever fine issued for space debris by the...
A Qased rocket launch at 0558 GMT on 27 September from the Qased Shahroud Test Centre, Iran, carried the Noor 3 (Nour 3) electronic intelligence satellite into a 456 x 442 km orbit at 60 degrees inclination. Stage separation, Payload Deployment etc…...
With the hatch closed at 0441 GMT on 27 September 2023, Soyuz MS-23 undocked from the Prichal module of the International Space Station (ISS) at 0754 GMT with Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev, Dmitri Petelin and NASA astronaut Frank Rubio onboard. Soyuz MS-23 had...
In a near repeat of a mission which took place earlier this month on 6 September 2023, China has launched another Yaogan 33 satellite from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, northwest China. This mission lifted-off at 2015 GMT on 26 September also utilising the Long...
The OSIRIS-REx mission to the asteroid Bennu has returned samples to Earth, fulfilling one of its main objectives seven years after it was launched in September 2016. After a two-year outbound journey, it went into orbit around Bennu in December 2018. The following...
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA at 0338 GMT on 24 September 2023. The vehicle was carrying Starlink Group 6-18, a total of 22 v2 Mini platform Starlink satellites as part of the second generation...
