On 21 February, Rivada Space Networks GmbH contracted American manufacturer Terran Orbital to produce 300 satellites in the 500 kg range for a planned LEO secure data-relay constellation. Rivada Space Networks is the German subsidiary of US company Rivada Networks,...
A Long March 2C (CZ-2C) rocket lifted-off at 0401 GMT on 24 February from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China. It carried a “remote sensing” satellite successfully into a sun-synchronous Low Earth Orbit (LEO). According to Chinese media the satellite was...
The uncrewed Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft was successfully launched onboard a Soyuz 2-1A from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan, at 0024 GMT on 24 February 2023. Soyuz MS-23, a replacement for the coolant-leak damaged Soyuz MS-22, is expected to...
As the first launch of its New Year (Year of the Rabbit), China has placed a communications satellite into orbit. At 1149 GMT on 23 February a Long March 3B (CZ-3B) rocket lifted-off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center and successfully carried Chinasat 26...
NASA selected Blue Origin to launch the two ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) spacecraft to study magnetosphere of Mars earlier this month. The contract was awarded as part of the Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare...
On the West Coast, SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket from the Vandenberg space base in California, USA, at 1912 GMT on 17 February. The rocket was carrying 51 Starlink satellites. The B1063 first stage landed on the drone barge “Of Course I...
