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L3Harris Technologies to snap up Aerojet Rocketdyne in US$4.7 billion deal
L3Harris Technologies plans to acquire Aerojet Rocketdyne for US$4.7 billion. Based in California, Aerojet Rocketdyne manufactures rocket engines and propulsion systems for the defence and space industries, including the RS-25 engines for NASA’s Space Launch System...
SpaceX gallops into final furlong of year with two more Falcon 9 launches: one launching Starlinks comsats and one for competitor O3B
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA at 2248 GMT on 16 December 2022. The vehicle was carrying O3b mPOWER 1 & 2, a pair of 1,200 kg Boeing 702X bus communications satellites, on their way to medium Earth...
Freshly minted Kongsberg NanoAvionics receives CubeSat orders from two French customers
Lithuanian smallsat manufacturer NanoAvionics - now known as Kongsberg NanoAvionics - has been awarded satellite contracts from two French companies. ONERA On 30 November 2022 ONERA ordered two CubeSats from Kongsberg NanoAvionics, the first 8U and the other 6U. These...
China launches a technology test satellite, Shiyan 21
At 0617 GMT on 16 December a Long March 11 (CZ-11) rocket placed the Shiyan 21 test satellite into LEO. The mission took place from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, China. “Shiyan” translates to English as “experiment” and these satellites are routinely described...
China launches fourth Yaogan 36 military sat triplet of the year
At 1825 GMT on 14 December China successfully launched its fourth Yaogan 36 triplet of the year. The mission saw a Long March 2D (CZ-2D) rocket lift-off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, China, and place the three satellites into their planned low Earth...
Cosmonauts in airlock forced to abandon spacewalk after Soyuz MS-22 springs leak
The Soyuz MS-22 sprung a coolant leak while still attached to the International Space Station (ISS) on 14 December. Soyuz MS-22, which brought a crew of three to the ISS in September, is also the crew’s means of returning home. The leak, which spewed droplets of fluid...
Zhuque-2 rocket fails to reach orbital velocity on maiden flight (Corrected)
The Landspace commercial Zhuque-2 (ZQ-2) Liquid Methane/Liquid Oxygen (LOX) powered two-stage rocket failed on its maiden flight from the Jiuquan launch site in China. The launch took place at circa 0830 GMT on 14 December. It is believed that the first stage worked...
Ariane 5 ECA+ launches three satellites from French Guiana: Galaxy-35 and -36, and MTG-I1
An Ariane 5 ECA+ rocket was launched from Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana on 13 December at 2030 GMT. It carried Eumetsat's MTG-I1 (Meteosat Third Generation Imager-1), along with two communications satellites for Intelsat: Galaxy 35 and Galaxy 36. The...
SpaceX launches another two Falcon 9 rockets from KSC and Cape Canaveral as it vies with China in “international” launch championship
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket from the Kennedy Space Centre (KSC), Florida, USA at 2227 GMT on 8 December. The vehicle was carrying forty OneWeb communications satellites (465 plus 39 others) to go into the OneWeb low Earth orbit (LEO)...
China has a mini-splurge of three launches with Long March 2D, Jielong-3 and Long March 4C all in action
China successfully launched a Long March 2D/2 (CZ-2D/2) from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre, China at 1831 GMT on 8 December 2022. The vehicle was carrying Gaofen-5-01A, a hyperspectral and infrared Earth observation satellite for the Chinese Ministry of Natural...
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