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....
A Soyuz 2-1b launch vehicle was successfully launched from Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia at 2058 GMT on 25 November 2023. It carried Cosmos 2572, an electro-optical reconnaissance satellite. The spacecraft was put into a low 318 x 302 km sun-synchronous orbit inclined...
David Todd, Seradata’s Head of Space Content, reports on the UK Space Conference, a biennial event held in the UK since 2007. This year’s venue for the three-day event was the International Convention Centre in Belfast, Northern Ireland. You can always tell how...
A Long March-2D/YZ-3 (CZ-2D/YZ-3) rocket was launched from Xichang Satellite Launch Center at 1000 GMT on 23 November 2023. The Y59 flight used a Yuanzheng-3 (YZ-3) upper stage to carry a trio of demonstration satellite for the internet constellation called...
A Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket launched from Vandenberg, California, USA, on 20 November 2023. The pad used was SLC-4E. Aboard the launch were 22 Starlink v2 Mini bus satellites as Starlink Group 7-7. The reusable first stage B1063 on its 15th flight was...
A North Korean Chollima-1 rocket has reportedly placed an optical reconnaissance satellite into LEO after being launched at 1342 GMT on 21 November. The mission lifted off from the Sohae Satellite Launching Ground, in the north-west of the Korean peninsula, and was...