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Sea launched Jielong-3 rocket carries Chinese internet communications test satellite
The four-stage solid rocket Jielong-3 (aka Smart Dragon-3) was launched from a launch platform in the sea off the coast near Yangjiang, Guangdong Province, China, at 1924 GMT on 5 December 2023 carrying the Weixing Hulianwang Jishu Shiyan 03 (WHJS-03) satellite for...
ESA signs development order with Airbus DS for TRUTHS solar radiation/global warming research mission
ESA has awarded a development contract to the UK arm of Airbus Defence and Space (Airbus DS) to create key technologies to allow the TRUTHS (Traceable Radiometry Underpinning Terrestrial- and Helio-Studies) satellite mission to measure solar radiation and the Earth's...
Ceres-1 rocket launches two sats into LEO
A Ceres-1 rocket built by commercial Chinese company Galactic Energy has carried two satellites into LEO. The launch took place at 2333 GMT, 4 December, from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China. On-board were Xingchi-1A and Jihneg-1 (Tainyan-16) a...
South Korea launches TLV solid rocket to orbit on its first orbital flight (Corrected)
The Small SAR Technology Experimental Payload (S-STEP), a 100 kg Synthetic Aperture Radar satellite owned by Hanwha Systems, was launched into a 650 km Sun-synchronous orbit by the maiden flight of South Korea’s new solid rocket called TLV (Test Launch Vehicle). TLV...
Another two Falcon 9 launches: Starlink Group 6-31 is launched from Canaveral while flight from Vandenberg launches 25 sats including the Korean 425 project
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 from Vandenberg, USA at 1819 GMT on 01 December 2023. The vehicle was carrying Korea 425 Project EO/IR Sat for South Korea. There were 25 spacecraft on the flight in all. There were a total of 25 spacecraft on board this...
Egypt’s Misr-Sat 2 Earth observation satellite is launched by Long March 2C from Jiuquan
Egypt's Earth observation satellite Misr-Sat-2 was launched on a Long March-2C/3 (CZ-2C/3) rocket from Jiuquan at 0410 GMT on 4 December 2023. The launch also carried two small Xingchi-1 02A and 02B (aka Starpool-02A and -02B).satellites for Beijing's Touyuan Shikong...
Progress MS-25 is launched via a Soyuz rocket and docks with ISS albeit in remotely controlled docking
Russia's space agency/space conglomerate successfully launched a Soyuz 2.1a launch vehicle from Baikonur Cosmodrome, near Tyuratam, Kazakhstan at 0925 GMT on 1 December 2023. The launch vehicle was carrying Progress MS-25, a resupply mission to the International Space...
Progress MS-23 undocks from ISS and its re-entry is imaged by astronauts
The Roscosmos-operated Progress MS-23 cargo ship undocked from the International Space Station's (ISS) Poisk module at 0755 GMT on 29 November. It made its deorbit burn at 1102 GMT and re-entered to burn up over the Pacific east of New Zealand at about 1145 GMT, with...
Space orders: Millenium Space gets USSF MEO six tracking satellite order…as Northrop Grumman pulls out of Skynet 6 tender
There were few major announcements related to satellite and launch orders during November. Perhaps the biggest was actually a non-order, but rather the withdrawal of Northrop Grumman from tendering for the UK Ministry of Defence's Skynet 6 communications satellite...
Funding woes at Virgin Galactic, Sierra Space and Astra Space as each tries to contain cash bleed
New space and even established space companies sometimes have to endure difficult periods when sufficient revenues are simply not there, or do not come in fast enough. At moments like these cash is king. To survive, firms may have to resort to emergency funding, or...
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