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SpaceX launches first of many planned Starlink launches in May
At 0942 GMT on 6 May a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida carrying 53 Starlink satellites. The payloads were successfully bulk deployed in to their deployment orbit in LEO at around an hour after launch. They will now undergo...
NASA Crew 3 (Endurance) departs the International Space Station (Updated)
On 5 May 2022 at 0320 GMT, the NASA Crew 3 (Endurance) mission astronauts closed the hatch between their Crew Dragon craft and the International Space Station (ISS). Undocking was autonomous from the forward port of the ISS's Harmony module at 0520 GMT. Commander Raja...
Eight more Earth Observation satellites launched for Chinese Jilin-1 constellation
A Long March-2D (CZ-2D) rocket launched from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, Northern China, at 0238 GMT on 5 May. The mission carried eight Jilin-1 Earth Observation satellites to a low Earth orbit (LEO). The primary payload was the larger Jilin-1 Kuanfu-01C...
Arabsat orders Arabsat-7A software-defined satellite from Thales Alenia Space
Riyadh-based fleet operator Arabsat has ordered the construction of Arabsat-7A, its first fully flexible Software-Defined Satellite (SDS), after signing a contract with Thales Alenia Space on 29 April. Arabsat-7A will replace the majority of the existing C- and...
Rocket Lab’s Electron launches 34 sats but helicopter snag/landing of first-stage only partially works
On its launch from the Onenui Station on Mahia peninsula, New Zealand on 2 May 2022 an Electron KS rocket successfully put 34 small satellites into orbit on a rideshare mission. The rocket's payload included 24 SpaceBee store/forward Internet of Things (IoT)...
Falcon 9 launches 53 Starlink satellites (Group 4-16)
A SpaceX Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket was launched From Cape Canaveral in Florida USA at 2127 GMT on 29 March . It was carrying 53 Starlink satellites (Group 4-16) for the SpaceX low Earth orbit communications satellite constellation. The launch's reusable first...
Angara 1.2 launches single small military imaging satellite from Plesetsk but it fails in orbit (Updated)
Russia launched its small rocket, the Angara-1.2 from the Plesetsk launch site at 1955 GMT on 29 April. A military satellite codenamed Cosmos 2555 (Kosmos-2555) was launched into a very low Sun-synchronous 294 x 279 km orbit at 96.5 degrees inclination. The exact...
Long March 11H makes cold launch lift off from ship to put five Jilin-1 imaging satellites into orbit
A Long March 11H (CZ-11H) was launched from a ship/barge called the Tai Rui located in the Yellow Sea off China at 0330 GMT on 30 April 2022. On board were five Jilin-1 commercial imaging satellites which were deployed successfully into a sun-synchronous low Earth...
Russian spacewalkers work hard on ISS Nauka module’s European robot arm
On 28 April 2022 Expedition 67 Flight Engineers and Roscosmos Cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev and Denis Matveev began their EVA (Russian spacewalk 53) when they exited the Poisk module airlock at 1458 GMT. Their mission was to continue activating the new European robotic arm...
China launches Long March 2C carrying two Siwei Earth observation satellites
China successfully launched a Long March 2C (CZ-2C) launch vehicle from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre at 0411 GMT on 29 April. The vehicle was carrying two Earth observation spacecraft, Siwie 01 and Siwie 02. These 540 kg low Earth orbit – Sun synchronous...
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