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Aditya L1, India’s first mission to study the Sun, is inching closer to its destination, the Lagrange Point (L1), located 1.5 million kilometers away from the Earth. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) had launched Aditya L1 on September 2, last year. ISRO could be attempting one of the most crucial maneuvers of this mission …

Critical stage awaits ISRO solar mission Aditya L1 as it inches closer to destination. Read More »

SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink internet satellites on Tuesday (Jan. 2), on its first mission of 2024. A Falcon 9 rocket topped with 21 Starlink craft lifted off from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base at 10:44 p.m. EST (0313 GMT on Jan. 3; 7:44 p.m. local California time). And some of those satellites …

SpaceX launches 1st batch of ‘direct to cell’ Starlink satellites. Read More »

WASHINGTON — The commercial arm of India’s space agency ISRO announced Jan. 2 it will launch a large communications satellite later this year on a SpaceX Falcon 9, further underscoring SpaceX’s dominance in the global launch market. New Space India Ltd. (NSIL), the arm of ISRO responsible for commercial launch and satellite services, said it …

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NASA and Russia have agreed to keep launching American astronauts and Russian cosmonauts on each other’s spacecraft, media reports suggest. Roscosmos announced both it and NASA will continue the International Space Station launches with each other’s crew members through at least 2025, “to maintain the reliability of the ISS as a whole,” according to multiple …

NASA and Russia will keep launching each other’s astronauts to ISS until 2025. Read More »

A SpaceX cargo ship laden with science departed the space station today (Dec. 21) and headed back toward Earth. SpaceX‘s robotic Dragon spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) today at 5:05 p.m. EST (2205 GMT), as the two spacecraft were flying over the southwest coast of Chile. If all goes according to plan, …

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Chinese launch startup Landspace appears ready to test launching and landing rockets. The company launched its third Zhuque-2 methane-fueled rocket on Dec. 8, successfully sending two satellites into orbit. It also revealed plans following the launch for a large stainless steel Zhuque-3 reusable rocket that it aims to launch for orbit for the first time …

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A delegation from the French Space Agency CNES visited Colorado and Texas last week to expand ties between French and American aerospace companies. The officials, who jokingly refer to themselves as France’s NewSpace Musketeers, plan to establish virtual hubs in Denver and Houston for Connect by CNES, a government initiative to spur space-related innovation. “We …

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Virgin Galactic’s sixth commercial spaceflight will lift off next month, if all goes according to plan. The mission, known as Galactic-06, is targeted for Jan. 26, Virgin Galactic announced in a statement issued on Tuesday (Dec. 19). The flight will include four private astronauts — one from Texas, one from California, one from Austria and …

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Firefly Aerospace plans to launch its fourth-ever mission today (Dec. 20), and you can watch the action live. The company’s Alpha rocket is scheduled to lift off from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base today during a 20-minute window that opens at 12:24 p.m. EST (1724 GMT; 9:24 a.m. local California time), kicking off a mission …

Firefly Aerospace scrubs Alpha rocket launch set for Dec. 20 due to weather Read More »

SpaceX ended an 11-day hiatus in launches late Dec. 18 with a successful Starlink mission, but the gap likely means the company will fall just short of its goal of 100 Falcon launches this year. A Falcon 9 lifted off from Space Launch Complex 49 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 11:01 …

SpaceX to just miss goal of 100 Falcon launches in 2023 Read More »