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Shenzhou 16 undocks from the Chinese Space Station (Updated)
Shenzhou 16 with crew, Commander Jing Haipeng, Gui Haichao and Zhu Yangzhu aboard, successfully undocked from the Tianhe nadir port of the Chinese Space Station at 1237 GMT on 30 October. The spacecraft completed a final fly-around the Chinese Space Station that had...
SpaceX launches Starlink Group 7-6 over weekend
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket from Vandenberg, California, USA at 0900 GMT on 29 October. The launch vehicle was carrying Starlink Group 7-6, a total of 22 V2 Mini satellites for the second-generation Starlink constellation. The B1075...
Chinese crew mission Shenzhou-17 successfully launched and docks with the CSS
China successfully launched Shenzhou-17 at 0314 GMT on 26 October from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, on a Long March 2F/G launch vehicle. This crewed mission to the Chinese Space Station (CSS) - also known as Tiangong - carried three taikonauts into LEO....
LOTOS-S1 No 8 launches onboard a Soyuz 2-1B
A SOYUZ 2-1B successfully launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia carrying the LOTOS-S1 No 8, an ELINT (Electronic Intelligence) military satellite, part of the Liana programme, to LEO on 27 October at 0600 GMT (time to be confirmed). The extra-large spacecraft,...
Russian spacewalk 61 completed
Roscosmos Expedition 70 cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub began their spacewalk (VKD-61) on 25 October. With the Poisk airlock depressurized from 1729 GMT, the cosmonauts opened the hatch at 1749 GMT. Their mission was to install a synthetic radar...
China launches second Yaogan-39 triplet in a month
Launching at 2003 GMT on 24 October a Chinese Long March 2D rocket has carried a triplet of the Yaogan-39 series into LEO. The mission originated from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, China. These satellites make up the fourth Yaogan-39 triplet and are the second...
Two Starlink launches in two days for SpaceX from both sides of the USA
SpaceX conducted two Starlink launches over the weekend of 21/22 October 2023. The first took place at 0823 GMT on 21 October and saw a Falcon 9 rocket lift-off from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, and carry 21 Starlink sats into LEO. These satellites formed...
International Space Station suffers coolant leak
Cosmonauts on the International Space Station (ISS) were alerted to a minor alarm on 9 October when they saw snowflakes outside the window of the station. The cause was a coolant leak on the external back-up radiator of the Nauka (MLM-U) module, according to Russian...
India successfully tests Crew Escape System as it sets eyes on putting Indian astronauts on the Moon by 2040
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) performed a successful demonstration flight of the Crew Escape System (CES) via its Test Vehicle – a special single stage rocket – at 1630 GMT on 21 October from its Sriharikota launch site in the south of India. The...
Starlink Group 6-23 is launched by a Falcon 9 rocket
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA at 0039 GMT on 18 October 2023. The vehicle was carrying Starlink Group 6-23, a total of 22 (V2-mini) satellites for the second-generation Starlink constellation. The...
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