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Blue Origin announces Blue Ring space tug for hard-to-get-at orbits including the Moon’s
The Jeff Bezos-founded launch company Blue Origin may have yet to achieve orbit with its New Glenn rocket series but its new In-Space Systems division has unveiled Blue Ring, a spacecraft platform focused on providing in-space logistics and delivery. The Blue Ring...
China launches Yunhai-1 04 weather sat using Long March 2D rocket
The Chinese successfully launched a Long March 2D/2 (CZ-2D/2) from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre, Inner Mongolia, China at 0054 GMT on 15 October 2023. The launch vehicle was carrying Yunhai-1 04, a Chinese meteorological satellite. Yunhai (meaning Cloud-Sea) is a...
Group 6-22 batch of 22 Starlink v2 Mini satellites are launched by a Falcon 9
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA at 2301 GMT on 13 October 2023. The vehicle was carrying Starlink Group 6-22, a total of 22 (V2-mini) satellites for the second-generation Starlink constellation. The reusable...
Psyche asteroid mission is sent on its way by Falcon Heavy
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon Heavy from Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Florida, USA at 1419 GMT on 13 October 2023. The vehicle was carrying Psyche. Psyche is a spacecraft that will be specifically study the metallic asteroid of the same name: 16 Psyche. The...
Mongolia to order comsat from Thales Alenia Space…while Intelsat taps Relativity Space’s Terran-R for launches
While the formal order has yet to be signed, Mongolia's Ministry of Digital Development has reported Thales Alenia Space to supply Chingis, a Ku-band communcations satellite for geostationary operation over 113.6 degrees East. The satellite will use a version of...
Starlink Group 7-4 is launched by Falcon 9 launch from Vandenberg
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....
Vega 1 finally launches…only for two of its satellites to fail to separate
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...
UK advertising guru Trevor Beattie flies with five others to edge of space on board Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo
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...
Amazon Kuiper constellation launches prototype pair aboard ULA Atlas V
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...
Miura 1 first atmospheric suborbital flight underperforms slightly but retires a lot of risk
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...
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