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...
China’s launched the Haiyang 3A (aka HY3-01) ocean colour monitoring satellite at 0355 GMT on 16 November 2023. The rocket used was the CALT operated Long March 2C/3/YZ-1S (CZ-2C/3/YZ-1S) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center at 0355 GMT on 16 November...
While the Starship second launch (IFT-2) from Boca Chica, Texas, on 18 November, gained all the headlines, earlier the same day a more mundane SpaceX launch took place from Pad 40 in Cape Canaveral at 0505 GMT. A Falcon 9v1.2 Block 5 launched the Starlink Group 6-28...