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Second OneWeb mission from Kourou launches more satellites to orbit
Arianespace successfully launched a Soyuz 2-ST-B/Fregat M vehicle from the Sinnamary launch site near Kourou in French Guiana at 1809 GMT on 10 February 2022. The Europeanised Soyuz vehicle was carrying 34 satellites in service of the OneWeb constellation. The mission...
Astra Space Rocket 3.3 fails again losing four small satellites (Updated)
The Astra Space Rocket 3.3 (Astra Rocket 3.3), which had suffered a post-ignition launch abort before lift-off a few days previously, has failed to achieve orbit after its launch at 2000 GMT on 10 February from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The LV0008 launch took place...
D-Orbit announces SPAC merger and ICEYE and Sateliot raise further funding
Italian "space logistics" company D-Orbit announced its plan go public through a SPAC (Breeze Holdings Acquisition Corp) merger on 27 January 2022. The process is expected to complete quickly - anticipated close is in Q3 2022 - and will see the new entity listed on...
Solar/Geomagnetic storm knocks out 38 out of 49 Starlink satellites from February launch (Updated & Revised)
SpaceX has admitted a new blow to its Starlink low Earth orbit-based communications satellite constellation. There were already doubts about the reliability of the Starlink V1.0 satellites (about a quarter of the 60 satellites on a Falcon 9 launch in March last year...
Soyuz launches new kind of radar satellite for Russian military (Corrected)
Russia successfully launched a Soyuz 2-1A/Fregat vehicle from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Northern Russia at 0700 GMT on 5 February 2022. The launch vehicle carried a satellite codenamed Cosmos 2553. This is believed to be the first Neitron, a new type of radar...
Third Falcon 9 launch in four days – this one carrying 49 Starlink satellites to orbit…but then a solar storm hits (Updated)
A Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket launched 49 satellites to their orbit m SpaceX's leased launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. Lift off of the flight Starlink Group 4-7 was at 1813 GMT on 3 February 2022. The satellites were injected into a low...
Vandenberg hosts Falcon 9 launch of NRO L-87 payload
The Vandenberg launch site in California hosted the launch of yet another secret satellite payload for the US National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). This time the mission was dubbed NRO L-87 and it was launched by a SpaceX Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 launch vehicle at 2027...
Falcon 9 launches COSMO-Skymed Second Generation 2 satellite from Cape Canaveral
After several delays, a final one involving a cruise ship straying into the danger zone, SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 launch vehicle from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, USA, at 2311 GMT on 31 January 2022. The vehicle was...
Shi Jian 21 docks with Beidou-2 G2 then takes it to a graveyard orbit
Space News reports that China's docking technology test satellite Shijian-21, having completed its own rendevous testing with a dummy satellite while in an eight degree inclined geosynchronous Earth orbit (GSO), was moved in late December 2021 to rendezvous and dock...
European company Plus Ultra books satellite launch with German RFA and lunar deployments from Japan’s ispace
A Spanish-German start-up Plus Ultra Space Outposts (Plus Ultra) as expended on its plans to provide reliable, high-speed connectivity for Lunar missions. It envisions an eight-unit fleet with an orbit 6,000 km above the Moon. These satellites will then be able to...
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