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Charlie Ergen reunites his DISH and Echostar businesses in merger
US satellite TV provider DISH Network plans to merge with its sister company and satellite operator, EchoStar, the companies have announced. The deal will see the creation of a significant space connectivity player with a market value of around US$6 billion at the...
Ceres-1 small launcher puts seven Chinese small sats into orbit
A Ceres-1 (Gushenxing-1) rocket built by private Chinese company Galactic Energy successfully launched from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China at 0404 GMT on 10 August. The mission reportedly carried seven satellites into LEO however, despite there being a...
Luna 25 lander is sent on way to Moon by Soyuz rocket…but then it comes to grief (Updated)
A Soyuz 2-1b/Fregat M rocket sent Russia’s Luna 25 lander, also known as the Luna-Glob, into orbit from Vostochny cosmodrome in far eastern Russia, at 2310 GMT on 10 August. The lander and the Fregat M stage were placed into an initial parking orbit of 280 x 267 km at...
Falcon 9 launches another set of Starlink satellites: Group 6-9 on the 100th Starlink launch
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA at 0517 GMT on 11 August 2023. The launch vehicle was carrying Starlink Group 6-9 of 22 V2-Mini Starlink satellites for the Starlink second generation constellation. The reusable...
Virgin Galactic VSS Unity flies suborbital passenger mission again – its first “tourist” flight (Corrected)
The Virgin Galactic suborbital launch operation is gathering steam as it launches its second passenger flight. The suborbital SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity space plane was carried into the air by the WhiteKnightTwo carrier aircraft Eve from Spaceport America at 1429 GMT on...
Yahsat agrees to order two large GEO comsats Al Yah 4 & 5 from Airbus and reassesses Al Yah 3
The middle eastern satellite operator Yahsat has agreed to order two launch communications satellites to operate from geostationary Earth orbit (GEO) from Airbus Defence and Space. The satellites are called the Al Yah 4 and Al Yah 5 and will replace Al Yah 1 and Al...
Russian cosmonauts install shields and test European Robot Arm on latest spacewalk
At 1444 GMT on 9 August 2023, Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin , opened the Poisk module hatch to begin their Extra Vehicular Activity (EVA) spacewalk (Russian EVA-60). Their mission during this EVA was to attach three debris shields to the...
Chinese Long March 2C rocket puts disaster monitoring HJ-2F into orbit
At 2253 GMT on 8 August a Long March 2C (CZ-2C) rocket successfully carried the HJ-2F satellite into sun-synchronous LEO. The mission took place from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, Northern China. The satellite Huanjing Jianzai 2F is a SAR satellite reportedly...
Falcon 9 launch deploys Starlink Group 6-20 into orbit
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2 FT Block 5 rocket from Vandenberg, California, USA (Pad SLC-4E), 0357 GMT on 8 August 2023. The vehicle was carrying 15 v2 Mini Starlink satellites as part of Starlink Group 6-20 for the second generation constellation. The...
Russian Soyuz 2-1b Fregat rocket launches Glonass K2-13 navsat with supplemental payloads attached
At 2030 GMT on 7 August 2023, a Soyuz 2-1b Fregat successfully launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Northern Russia carrying the Glonass K2-13 military navigation satellite to its operating position in Medium Earth Orbit (MEO). Glonass-K2 (Uragan K2) spacecraft...
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