Making its first military launch since November, Russia’s Soyuz-2.1a rocket has deployed Kosmos 2567 – likely a Bars-M reconnaissance satellite – into Sun-synchronous orbit. Soyuz lifted off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome at 9:40 AM Moscow Time (06:40 UTC), taking around ten minutes to complete its mission.
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Relativity Space conducted the first flight of its Terran 1 rocket Wednesday. The Good Luck,…
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As launch approaches, JUICE project manager discusses trajectories and science
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) spacecraft recently arrived in French…
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SpaceX conducts doubleheader with Starlink mission followed by launch for SES
Hot on the heels of Tuesday’s successful CRS-27 launch, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 was in action…
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Commercial rockets spotted amidst Chinese launch tripleheader
by Adrian BeilChina is starting to increase its launch cadence again after a slow start to 2023.…
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Rocket Lab, which opened its 2023 campaign with the inauguration of its first US-based launch…
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JUICE arrives in French Guiana for launch, project manager outlines next steps
Set for launch from the Centre Spatial Guyanais (CSG) in Kourou, French Guiana, on April…
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At 23:13 UTC on March 12, Russia’s Proton-M rocket launched from Site 200/39 at Baikonur…
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SpaceX launched 40 high-speed internet communication satellites to a polar low Earth orbit on the…
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Japan’s maiden launch of H3 rocket fails during second stage flight
by Adrian BeilJAXA and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries launched – at the second attempt – to maiden launch…
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SpaceX launches v1.5 satellites from Vandenberg following debut of Starlink v2
On Monday, SpaceX conducted the first of two Starlink launches this week from each coast…
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SpaceX has launched the Inmarsat I-6 F2 satellite into geostationary transfer orbit atop a Falcon…
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The second of two Starlink launches this week, Starlink Group 2-5, launched at 11:12 AM…
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India’s new SSLV rocket has successfully reached orbit on its second attempt Friday, six months…
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As the two-year landing anniversary of NASA’s Perseverance rover and its small scouting helicopter Ingenuity draws near, the pair…
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Using Hubble, researchers measure the mass of a single white dwarf for the first time
Of the trillions of stars scattered throughout the universe, one of the most common are…
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At 09:12 UTC on Feb. 5, 2023, a Proton-M launched from Site 81/24 at the…
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SpaceX ended January with and began February with two Starlink missions. These launches occurred two…
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Arriving at Titan: How Dragonfly’s Entry, Descent, and Landing will differ from Mars missions
Since the focus on Martian exploration ramped up in the mid-1990s, most of the familiarity…
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SpaceX’s busy 2023 continued with the launch of Starlink 5-2, a mission that plans to…