A Russian military satellite of unknown nature was launched into orbit by a launch of a Soyuz 2-1v small launch vehicle at 0703 GMT on 27 December from the Plesetsk launch site in Northern Russia. The exact nature of the satellite has not yet been disclosed. A single...
At 2239 GMT on Christmas Day (25 December 2023) a Long March 11 (CZ-11) launched three Shiyan-24C experimental satellites from from a barge launch pad off Guangdong. . A Long March 11 (CZ-11) rocket launched SY24C satellites have been cataloged in a 540 x 553 x 540...
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 from Cape Canaveral, USA at 0533 GMT on 23 December 2023. The launch vehicle was carrying Starlink Group 6-32, a total of 23 second-generation constellation V2 Mini Starlink satellites. The B1058 first stage, on...
A launch of the Firefly Alpha rocket took place from the Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, USA, at 1732 GMT on 22 December 2023. The payload carried was the Lockheed Martin Electronically Steerable Antenna Technology Demonstrator satellite called Tantrum....
Shenzhou-17 Astronauts Tang Hongbo and Tang Shengjie made a spacewalk from the Chinese Space Station Tiangong. They returned to Tiangong at 1335 GMT on 21 December 2023 after a seven and a half hour spacewalk. The astronauts repaired a Tianhe module solar array...
A Soyuz 2-1b rocket was launched from a snow-covered Plesetsk, Northern Russia, USA on 0848 GMT on 21 December 2023. The satellite carried was military in nature. It is thought to be a Bars-M cartography satellite. The satellite codenamed Cosmos 2574 (Kosmos-2574)...
