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China launches ASO-S solar observatory to LEO
At 2343 GMT on 8 October, China launched a Long March 2D (CZ-2D) rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center to LEO. The payload carried was the ASO-S (Advanced Space-borne Solar Observatory) solar observation mission which is intended to monitor the sun 24 hours...
Rocket Lab launches GAzelle satellite
Rocket Lab successfully launched its Electron KS rocket at 1709 GMT on 7 October from Onenui Station, Māhia Peninsula New Zealand. The rocket carried the GAzelle satellite, previously known as OTB 3. GAzelle, developed by General Atomics, carried an Argos...
Glonass K1-17 is launched successfully by Soyuz 2-1b/Fregat
On 10 October 2022 at 0252 GMT the Glonass K1-17 navigation satellite was launched successfully by a Soyuz 2-1b/Fregat rocket from Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia. This is the second satellite in 2022 sent to replenish the Russian military Glonass navigation...
Falcon 9 launches GEO satellite pair Galaxy 33 & 34
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA at 2305 GMT on 08 October 2022. The vehicle was carrying Galaxy 33 & 34, a pair of C-band communications satellites owned by Intelsat on their way to their final Geostationary...
SDA awards contracts to Ball Aerospace and York Space Systems
New space company York Space Systems and Ball Aerospace have each won construction and operation contracts from the Space Development Agency (SDA), an agency within the USA's Space Force. Colorado based York Space was awarded a US$200 million contract from the SDA,,...
Long March 11H (CZ-11H) launches commercial navsat pair off barge: Centispace-1 S5 & S6
A Chinese Long March 11H (CZ-11H) mainly solid rocket launch vehicle reportedly launched a pair of Centispace commercial navigation satellites from the DeBo-3 barge at 1310 GMT on 7 October 2022. The satellites, Centispace-1 S5 and S6, with a mass of approximately...
Two Falcon 9 launches in one day: Carrying “Crew 5” humans to ISS and 52 Starlink Group 4-29 comsats
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on the East coast of the US, at 1600 GMT on 5 October. The vehicle was bearing Crew Dragon which carried the Crew 5 human astronaut mission. It was the fifth operational crewed...
Atlas V launch puts SES 20 and 21 comsat pair into orbit
In a rare commercial flight for United Launch Alliance (ULA), an Atlas V rocket successfully launched a pair of medium-class communications satellites, SES-20 and SES-21, en route to their final geostationary Earth orbit. ULA’s Atlas V rocket was in its 531/GEM-63...
India loses its Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) after eight years
India's Mars probe, the Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), has ceased to function over eight years after its launch on 5 November 2013, according to recent reports. It is also over seven years since its post-launch design life, of 1.5 years, expired. Communications were lost...
IAC 2022 Paris report & sketch: “Space4all” – at least in theory
There are many space conferences every year, some specialising in military space hardware and applications, some aimed squarely at the commercial market, but when it comes to international space flight – and especially space agencies – there is perhaps only one...
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