SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA at 0517 GMT on 11 August 2023. The launch vehicle was carrying Starlink Group 6-9 of 22 V2-Mini Starlink satellites for the Starlink second generation constellation. The reusable...
The middle eastern satellite operator Yahsat has agreed to order two launch communications satellites to operate from geostationary Earth orbit (GEO) from Airbus Defence and Space. The satellites are called the Al Yah 4 and Al Yah 5 and will replace Al Yah 1 and Al...
At 2253 GMT on 8 August a Long March 2C (CZ-2C) rocket successfully carried the HJ-2F satellite into sun-synchronous LEO. The mission took place from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, Northern China. The satellite Huanjing Jianzai 2F is a SAR satellite reportedly...
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2 FT Block 5 rocket from Vandenberg, California, USA (Pad SLC-4E), 0357 GMT on 8 August 2023. The vehicle was carrying 15 v2 Mini Starlink satellites as part of Starlink Group 6-20 for the second generation constellation. The...
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2 FT Block 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA, at 0241 GMT on 7 August 2023. The vehicle was carrying Starlink Group 6-8, a total of 22 v2 Mini Starlink satellites for the second generation constellation. The reusable...
There have been some marked changes in the race (back) to the Moon over the past year. But the question on everyone’s minds still is: who will get there first? David Todd provides an answer in the annual Seradata analysis of “The Great Space Race” as well as tackling...
