A Proton-M/Block DM-03 launch vehicle was successfully launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome, near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan at 0912 GMT on 5 February 2023. It carried the Elektro-L N4, a Russian geostationary weather satellite. It is the Fourth Elektro-L satellite to be...
An investigation by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) into the failure of the maiden flight of its latest rocket, the SSLV, has revealed that an exceptional shock during separation compromised the guidance system. The SSLV-D1 launch seemed to go well with...
Following international bidding, South Korea has settled on an Arianespace Vega C rocket to launch Kompsat 6 (Arirang 6), the South Korean vice-minister for Science, Oh Tae-seog, announced on 1 February. The contract replaces one previously held with International...
A Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 was launched from the Vandenberg Space Force base in California at 1615 GMT on 31 January. Aboard was a batch of 49 Starlink satellites (Group 2-6) for the SpaceX Starlink constellation. ION-SCV 9 (SCV 0009) — InOrbit NOW Satellite Carrier...
Just as Ukraine’s military campaign has been supported by US commercial spacecraft operating firms — with SpaceX and Maxar providing broadband communications and Earth imagery respectively — a Russian private army group has apparently also benefitted from the...
SpaceNews reports (quoting the South China Morning Post) that the Zhurong 1 Mars rover as part of the Tianwen 1 mission for China has failed to make contact in December as planned after its period of hibernation during the Northern Hemisphere Martian winter since 18...
