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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...
SpaceX launches Starlink Group 6-8 set of 22 comsats via a Falcon 9 launch
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2 FT Block 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA, at 0241 GMT on 7 August 2023. The vehicle was carrying Starlink Group 6-8, a total of 22 v2 Mini Starlink satellites for the second generation constellation. The reusable...
Analysis: the US throws its lunar lead away in ‘Great Space Race’ but is still ahead of ‘copycat’ China for Mars (Updated)
There have been some marked changes in the race (back) to the Moon over the past year. But the question on everyone’s minds still is: who will get there first? David Todd provides an answer in the annual Seradata analysis of “The Great Space Race” as well as tackling...
China’s Feng Yun-3F weather satellite is launched by a Long March 4C
A Long March 4C (CZ-4C) rocket successfully launched the 2.8 metric ton Feng Yun-3F (sometimes written as Fengyun-3F) meteorological satellite into an 828 km sun-synchronous orbit from Jiuquan at 0347 GMT on 3 August 2023. The launch on behalf of the China State...
Falcon 9 launches Galaxy 37/Horizons-4 comsat
A SpaceX Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket successfully launched the communications satellite Galaxy 37 (aka Horizons-4) communications satellite at 0500 GMT on 3 August 2023. The launch took place from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA, using the SpaceX-leased SLC-40 pad. ...
Voyager 2 is lost…for a time
An erroneous command sent to the venerable Voyager 2 spacecraft, now at the outer reaches of the solar system, inadvertently made the spacecraft move so that it tilted its antenna to point two degrees away from Earth. Communications were lost with the spacecraft –...
Antares 230+ rocket launches Cygnus NG-19 cargo craft to ISS on its final flight (Corrected)
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent war between the nations has had ramifications for launches. The most obvious ones were removals of western-built satellites from Russian Soyuz or Proton launches, either as part of retaliatory sanctions or because of...
India launches PSLV-CA carrying seven satellites for Singapore (Corrected)
An Indian PSLV-CA (Core Alone) variant rocket lifted off from the Sriharikota launch site at 0101 GMT on 30 July 2023. Aboard were seven satellites. The main payload was the DS-SAR - a 352 kg radar satellite which is operated by DS Engineering for the Singaporean...
She’s a bigger bird and no mistake: Falcon Heavy launches record-breaking Echostar 24/Jupiter 3
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy (v1.2FT Block 5) rocket launched what is, to date, the heaviest ever communications satellite on its way to geostationary orbit: Echostar 24/Jupiter 3 on behalf of Echostar - Hughes Network Systems. The launch, which had been delayed for a few...
Boeing’s losses on Starliner programme reach US$1.5 billion as its delays persist
The Boeing Crew Flight Test (CFT) - the first crewed mission of CST-100 Starliner, Boeing’s partially reusable spacecraft - was supposed to fly two NASA astronauts, Barry E. Wilmore (spacecraft commander) and Sunita Williams (pilot) on a week long test flight to the...
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