On 23 March 2023 at 0640 GMT a Soyuz 2-1a rocket successfully launched what is believed to be the Bars-M 4 military electro-optical area surveillance stereoscopic cartography satellite, from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia. The last BARS-M satellite (Cosmos 2556 aka...
A Proton M/Breeez-M rocket successfully launched the Luch 5X satellite, also known as the Olymp K-2 spacecraft, at 2312 GMT on 12 March 2023, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Via a parking orbit, the satellite was placed into a GTO – geosynchronous transfer orbit...
A radiator leak of coolant on board the Soyuz MS-22 while it was attached to the International Space Station (ISS) in December 2022 was just the start of problems. Not only was a Cosmonaut spacewalk postponed, but an empty Soyuz spacecraft was even requested to be...
A Proton-M/Block DM-03 launch vehicle was successfully launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome, near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan at 0912 GMT on 5 February 2023. It carried the Elektro-L N4, a Russian geostationary weather satellite. It is the Fourth Elektro-L satellite to be...
Following international bidding, South Korea has settled on an Arianespace Vega C rocket to launch Kompsat 6 (Arirang 6), the South Korean vice-minister for Science, Oh Tae-seog, announced on 1 February. The contract replaces one previously held with International...
Following a radiator leak on 15 December, Roscosmos, in agreement with NASA and other International Space Station (ISS) partners, has decided that the Soyuz MS-22 will not return to Earth with humans on it, unless there is an extreme emergency. A radiator leak on...