The Small SAR Technology Experimental Payload (S-STEP), a 100 kg Synthetic Aperture Radar satellite owned by Hanwha Systems, was launched into a 650 km Sun-synchronous orbit by the maiden flight of South Korea’s new solid rocket called TLV (Test Launch Vehicle). TLV...
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 from Vandenberg, USA at 1819 GMT on 01 December 2023. The vehicle was carrying Korea 425 Project EO/IR Sat for South Korea. There were 25 spacecraft on the flight in all. There were a total of 25 spacecraft on board this...
Egypt’s Earth observation satellite Misr-Sat-2 was launched on a Long March-2C/3 (CZ-2C/3) rocket from Jiuquan at 0410 GMT on 4 December 2023. The launch also carried two small Xingchi-1 02A and 02B (aka Starpool-02A and -02B).satellites for Beijing’s...
Russia’s space agency/space conglomerate successfully launched a Soyuz 2.1a launch vehicle from Baikonur Cosmodrome, near Tyuratam, Kazakhstan at 0925 GMT on 1 December 2023. The launch vehicle was carrying Progress MS-25, a resupply mission to the International...
There were few major announcements related to satellite and launch orders during November. Perhaps the biggest was actually a non-order, but rather the withdrawal of Northrop Grumman from tendering for the UK Ministry of Defence’s Skynet 6 communications...
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA at 0420 GMT on 28 November 2023. The launch vehicle was carrying Starlink Group 6-30, a total of 23 v2 Mini Starlink satellites for the Starlink second-generation constellation....
