At 0736 GMT on 31 August a Chinese Long March 2D (CZ-2D) rocket carried a triplet of satellites into LEO. The mission lifted-off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, China. The three payloads on this mission were identified as a new Yaogan-series, Yaogan-39....
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2 FT Block 5 rocket from from Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center (just next door to Cape Canaveral), in Florida, USA,at 0727 GMT on 26 August 2023. The vehicle was carrying the a Crew Dragon (Endurance) spacecraft on the...
As if the increasing likelihood of a total insurance loss claim for the Viasat-3 Americas satellite was not enough, Viasat has received more bad news. Inmarsat, its newly acquired subsidiary, has found itself in the unenviable position of making an insurance claim for...
North Korea attempted to launch what was described in state media as a Malligyong-1 reconnaissance satellite on 23 August at around 1850 GMT. The mission was apparently a do-over of an unsuccessful launch in May but turned out to be an unfortunate moment of déjà vu...
Launching at 0937 GMT on 22 August, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried 21 satellites into LEO. The mission took place from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, USA, and marked the first as part of the Starlink constellation’s “Group 7”. These 21...
The SDA announced on 21 August that it had awarded Tranche 2 contracts for 72 satellites (36 each) to Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman. These satellites will be for its Transport Layer data-relay constellation. The contractors will build and operate their...
