South Korean company INNOSPACE has launched a sub-orbital rocket from the Alcântara Launch Center, Brazil. The mission took place at 1752 GMT on 19 March and saw the Hanbit-TLV vehicle fly on a sub-orbital trajectory. The mission was primarily intended to test a...
Having lost its access to space via Soyuz rockets after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, OneWeb turned to other launch providers. One of these was the commercial arm of ISRO which began offering the GSLV 3 – now called the LMV3 rocket. Thus at 0430 GMT on 26...
The Starlink Group 5-5 (56 satellites) was made by a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 from Cape Canaveral, Floriday, USA, at 1543 GMT on 24 March 2023. The Starlink v1.5 satellites were going into the Starlink Gen 2 shell at 43 degrees inclination. The launch included the...
At 0914 GMT on 24 March 2023, Rocket Lab successfully launched their Electron KS rocket (in reusable waterproofed trim to attempt splashdown recovery of first stage) from Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand. Onboard was Blacksky Global 19 and 21, a pair of 55 kg Earth...
On 23 March 2023 at 0640 GMT a Soyuz 2-1a rocket successfully launched what is believed to be the Bars-M 4 military electro-optical area surveillance stereoscopic cartography satellite, from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia. The last BARS-M satellite (Cosmos 2556 aka...
The Terran 1 rocket, built by Relativity Space, failed to achieve orbit after suffering an ignition anomaly with its second stage during its maiden launch. As it was purely a test mission, the rocket was not carrying a satellite payload or releasable fairing. The...
