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JUICE finally manages to get its radar antenna out but there is no joy for hobbled Lunar Flashlight
ESA’s JUICE (JUpiter ICy-moon Explorer) mission, built by Airbus, which is planned to make detailed observations of Jupiter and its three large ocean-bearing moons, has managed to finally deploy the 16 m radar antenna for the Radar for Icy Moons Exploration (RIME)....
Roscosmos cosmonauts complete EVA to fit radiator
Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin opened the airlock hatch on the Poisk module at 1547 GMT on 12 May. This was the third in a series of three planned spacewalks for the cosmonauts. This mission objective was to deploy a radiator on the...
Another Falcon 9 Starlink launch: this time carrying 56 comsats for Group 5-9
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA at 0503 GMT on 14 May 2023. The launch vehicle was carrying 56 communications satellites for the SpaceX Starlink constellation's Group 5-9. The reusable B1067 first stage,...
SpaceX Falcon 9 puts 51 Starlink comsats into orbit as Group 2-9
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket from Vandenberg, California, USA at 2009 GMT on 10 May 2023. The vehicle was carrying Starlink Group 2-9 (a 51 total Starlink v1.5 dsatellites). The reusable Falcon 9 B1075 first stage on its third flight...
Tianzhou-6 is launched to orbit on a Long March 7 (Updated)
A Long March 7 (CZ-7) rocket has successfully launched the Tianzhou-6 freighter spacecraft at 1322 GMT on 10 May 2023 on its way to the Chinese Space Station (CSS/Tiangong). The launch took place frorm Wenchang Satellite Launch Centre, Hainan Island, in Far Eastern...
Space Orders: ClearSpace books Arianespace Vega C for debris removal mission
Swiss debris company ClearSpace has signed a launch contract with Arianespace to use the Vega C launcher for its first debris removal mission. The ClearSpace-1 mission will be launched in the second half of 2026 from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. It will...
China’s mini-Shuttle lands after its second flight
After spending 276 days in orbit, China’s unmanned mini-shuttle/spaceplane, dubbed the CSSHQ 1, landed on 8 May following its second flight in orbit. No TV coverage of the landing was released, or even its landing time, but the China Aerospace Science and Technology...
NASA’s TROPICS pair of satellites are successfully launched by Rocket Lab Electron
NASAs TROPICS 5 and TROPICS 6, having originally been planned to be launched on a completely different rocket (the launch was moved from an Astra Rocket 3 after a launch failure destroyed an earlier TROPICS pair), and then launched from a new location (New Zealand...
Maxar Technologies completes US$6.4 billion sale to private equity firm
The sale of US satellite operator Maxar Technologies to private equity firm Advent International and minority investor British Columbia Investment Management Corp has been completed. Formed in 2017, Maxar is a satellite manufacturer and operator with a fleet of...
Spacewalking cosmonauts relocate airlock on the ISS…as Crew 6 move their Dragon
On 3 May 2023 at 2000 GMT, Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin began another spacewalk. Their mission objective was to relocate an experiment airlock from the Rassvet module to the Nauka science module. Cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev worked from inside...
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