The Peregrine PM-1 lunar lander began its journey to the Moon on 8 January on board a Vulcan-Centaur 542 rocket launched on its maiden flight from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 0718 GMT. If it succeeds in its landing attempt on 23 February, it will become the first US...
China’s first launch of 2024 was of four Tianmu radio-occultation weather satellites of the Tianmu constellation. At 1120 GMT on 5 January 2024 a Kuaizhou-1A solid rocket lifted off from Jiuquan carrying the Tianmu-1 15-18. These satellites examine how...
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA at 2304 GMT on 3 January. On board was the small communications satellite Ovzon-3, which will be operated by the Swedish/US firm Ovzon over 59.7 degrees East in...
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket from Vandenberg, California, USA at 0344 GMT on 03 January 2024. The launch vehicle was carrying Starlink Group 7-9, a total of 21 v2 Mini Starlink satellites for its second generation constellation....
India has announced that its planned GSAT-20 communications satellite (aka GSAT-N2) will be launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch in Q2 2024. The 4,700 kg GSAT-20 spacecraft is defined as a Ka-band high thoughput satellite (HTS). The satellite is being financed...
A launch of the PSLV-DL (flight number PSLV-C58) from Satish Dhawann Space Centre, Sriharikota, India took place at 0340 GMT on 1 January 2024 marking the first launch of the New Year. It was carrying XPoSAT – an X-ray astronomy satellite (official name is X-ray...
