The United States Space Force (USSF) on 9 November 2022 confirmed that it had ordered a second Weather System Follow-on Microwave (WSF-M) from manufacturer Ball Aerospace. This contract modification is worth US$78.2 million. This satellite has a projected launch date...
Under the shadow of the much publicised NASA SLS launch a commercial Chinese rocket has carried five satellites into LEO. The mission lifted-off at 0620 GMT on 16 November from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. Onboard the Ceres-1 (Gushenxing-1) small launch...
After a series of delays, including one caused by Hurricane Nicole, Artemis I’s Orion spacecraft finally lifted off from Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida, USA. The SLS (Space Launch System) rocket was launched at 0647 GMT on 16 November with its...
The Chinese optical remote sensing satellite Yaogan 34-03 satellite was launched on a Long March 4C (CZ-4C) rocket from Jiuquan launch site at 0138 GMT on 15 November 2022. The satellite is believed to have been built by SAST – Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight...
AST SpaceMobile, the company building a Bluebird satellite relay constellation that is directly accessible by mobile phones, has announced the successful deployment of the 64.4 square meter communications array on its test satellite, BlueWalker 3 (BW3), in orbit. This...
China launched the Tianzhou-5 resupply mission at 0203 GMT on 12 November. The freighter was propelled into orbit by a Long March 7 (CZ-7) rocket lifting-off from the Wenchang Space Launch Site, Hainan Island. Once placed into orbit the freighter conducted a two hour...
