SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket from Vandenberg, California, USA at 0743 GMT on 9 October 2023. The vehicle was carrying Starlink Group 7-4, group of 21 v2 Mini bus spacecraft for the second-generation constellation of Starlink satellites....
Delayed by a few days because of a technical issue, the Vega 1 rocket was finally, and successfully, launched on flight VV23 at 0136 GMT on 9 October from Centre Spatial Guyanais in Kourou, French Guiana. Aboard was the 450 kg Airbus DS-built THEOS-2, an Earth...
The Galactic 04 flight of the suborbital spaceplane SpaceShipTwo Unity took place on 6 October 2023. The flight was dubbed Galactic 04. Carrier aircraft VMS Eve took off from Spaceport America in New Mexico, USA, at 1528 GMT on 6 October 2023 with SpaceShipTwo VSS...
A ULA operated Atlas V 501 (RL10C-1) rocket was launched on its Flight AV-104 carrying a pair of KuiperSat spacecraft – dubbed KuiperSat-1 and KuiperSat-2. The launch took place from Cape Canaveral at 1806 GMT on 7 October 2023. The spacecraft are prototype...
Although Spanish launch firm PLD Space declared that its Miura 1 suborbital test rocket achieved “all technical objectives” on its maiden flight, in truth the flight did not achieve its planned altitude and was meant to have flown higher. Miura 1’s debut launch took...
Elon Musk’s virtual appearance at the International Astronautical Congress 2023 is dissected by Seradata Data Manager and reporter Matt Wilson, who did make it to Baku in-person. Elon Musk, CEO and founder of SpaceX, made a remote appearance at the annual congress on...
