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The week beginning December 8 is set to be a bustling period in space exploration, with multiple rocket launches planned from various providers worldwide. China will see a flurry of activity with at least six launches slated from four different spaceports. In addition, Russia is preparing for two forthcoming missions, launching once from Plesetsk and […]

As the first week of December unfolds, space enthusiasts can look forward to an exciting lineup of 10 orbital launches from six different companies across four continents. Leading the charge is SpaceX, which is set to conduct five separate missions to deploy its Starlink satellites from launch sites in California and Florida. On the international […]

On November 27, a significant incident occurred following the successful launch of the Soyuz 2.1a rocket, which carried the Soyuz MS-28 crew to the International Space Station (ISS). The launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome marked a successful mission for the crew, made up of Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikayev, along with NASA astronaut […]

The next crewed mission to the International Space Station is set to take off from Kazakhstan. The Soyuz MS-28 mission, transporting two cosmonauts from Roscosmos and one astronaut from NASA, is slated for launch on Thursday, November 27, at 09:27 UTC from the Baikonur Cosmodrome’s Site 31/6. This launch represents the final voyage to the […]

SpaceX is gearing up for its upcoming Falcon 9 launch, which will carry 140 commercial payloads into Sun-synchronous orbit as part of its Transporter-15 mission. Scheduled to lift off no earlier than November 28 at 10:18 PST (18:18 UTC) from Vandenberg Space Force Base’s Space Launch Complex 4-E, this mission marks a significant milestone in […]

The Shenzhou 22 mission, which was initially slated for launch next year, took to the skies successfully on November 25, 2023, at 04:11 UTC. The spacecraft lifted off from Site 901 at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center located in China’s Inner Mongolia province aboard a Chang Zheng-2F rocket. Unmanned, Shenzhou 22 managed an automated docking […]

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope, a collaboration among NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Canadian Space Agency, have uncovered a supermassive black hole in the distant galaxy CANUCS-LRD-z8.6. This galaxy is notable for being one of the farthest observed, existing just 570 million years following the Big Bang. CANUCS-LRD-z8.6 is classified within […]

Blue Origin’s plans for the launch of its NG-2 mission, carrying NASA’s ESCAPADE payload, were derailed not by the tumultuous weather in Florida, but by cosmic phenomena. The initial launch attempt was scheduled for November 12 but was postponed due to heightened space weather conditions. The launch ultimately took place a day later, on November […]

Firefly Aerospace has identified a minor hydrocarbon contamination as the cause of a combustion incident that occurred during a recent ground test of its Alpha Flight 7 rocket’s first stage. This event took place in September at the company’s Briggs test facility and led to the loss of the rocket stage. The company has clarified […]

This week, a series of significant space launches are set to take place, recovering from delays faced the previous week. Among the key missions are the anticipated New Glenn rocket carrying the ESCAPADE payload, the Viasat-3 F2 satellite aboard an Atlas V rocket, and several launches by SpaceX, including two Starlink missions, in addition to […]