SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA at 0619 GMT on 19 May 2023. The vehicle was carrying Starlink Group 6-3, a total of 22 second generation Starlink satellites. The reusable B1076 first stage (on its 5th...
Launching at 0249 GMT on 17 May a CALT Long March 3B (CZ-3B) rocket has carried a Chinese BeiDou-3 satellite navigation satellite into orbit. The mission lifted-off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Southern China. The BeiDou-3 unit, identified as BeiDou-3...
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)....
Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin opened the airlock hatch on the Poisk module at 1547 GMT on 12 May. This was the third in a series of three planned spacewalks for the cosmonauts. This mission objective was to deploy a radiator on the...
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA at 0503 GMT on 14 May 2023. The launch vehicle was carrying 56 communications satellites for the SpaceX Starlink constellation’s Group 5-9. The reusable B1067 first...
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket from Vandenberg, California, USA at 2009 GMT on 10 May 2023. The vehicle was carrying Starlink Group 2-9 (a 51 total Starlink v1.5 dsatellites). The reusable Falcon 9 B1075 first stage on its third flight...
