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Iran launches the Noor 2 satellite on Quased

Mar 8, 20221 min read

Iran launches the Noor 2 satellite on Quased

On Tuesday, March 8 at 12:06am ET (5:06 UTC), Iran launched the Noor 2 satellite atop a Quased rocket from the Space Launch Platform at...

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SpaceX Launches Starlink 4-10 with 48 more Starlink Satellites

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Mar 8, 20221 min read

SpaceX Launches Starlink 4-10 with 48 more Starlink Satellites

On Wednesday, March 9, at 8:45am ET (13:45 UTC), SpaceX launched Starlink Group 4 Launch 10, a batch with 48 Starlink v1.5 satellites,...

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China's Long March 4C Launches Xuancheng-1

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Mar 5, 20221 min read

China's Long March 4C Launches Xuancheng-1

On Saturday, March 5 at 1:01am EST (6:01 UTC), China launched the Xuancheng-1 rideshare mission from LC-3 at the Xichang Satellite Launch...

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SpaceX Launches Starlink 4-9 with 47 more Starlink Satellites

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Mar 2, 20221 min read

SpaceX Launches Starlink 4-9 with 47 more Starlink Satellites

On Thursday, March 3 at 9:35am ET (14:35 UTC), SpaceX launched Starlink Group 4 Launch 9 with 47 more Starlink v1.5 satellites atop a...

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ULA Launches NASA and NOAA's GOES-T Weather Satellite

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Feb 28, 20221 min read

ULA Launches NASA and NOAA's GOES-T Weather Satellite

On Tuesday, March 1 at 4:38am ET (21:38 UTC), the United Launch Alliance (ULA) launched NASA and NOAA's GOES-T satellite atop an Atlas V...

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Rocket Lab Launches "The Owl's Night Continues"

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Feb 27, 20221 min read

Rocket Lab Launches "The Owl's Night Continues"

On Monday, February 28 at 3:35 pm ET (20:35 UTC), Rocket Lab launched "The Owl's Night Continues" with the Strix Beta satellite built by...

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China Launches 22 Satellites in "One Arrow, 22 Stars" Miss

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Feb 27, 20221 min read

China Launches 22 Satellites in "One Arrow, 22 Stars" Miss

On Saturday, February 26 at 10:06pm ET (3:06 UTC on February 27), CNSA launched the "One Arrow, 22 Stars" mission with 22 rideshare...

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Feb 27, 20221 min read

Chian Launches L-SAR 01B

On Saturday, February 26 at 6:44pm ET (23:44 UTC), CNSA launched the L-SAR 01B satellite atop a Long March (Chang Zheng) 4C rocket from...

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Potential Impacts of the Ukrainian War on Spaceflight

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Feb 25, 20222 min read

Potential Impacts of the Ukrainian War on Spaceflight

The current invasion of Ukraine by Russia could have huge impacts on spaceflight. Obviously, a major concern is cooperation on the...

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SpaceX Launches Starlink 4-11 from Vandenburg

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Feb 24, 20221 min read

SpaceX Launches Starlink 4-11 from Vandenburg

On Friday, February 25 at 12:12pm ET (15:12 UTC), SpaceX launched Starlink Group 4 Launch 11 with 50 Starlink v1.5 satellites atop a...

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SpaceX Launches Starlink 4-8 with 49 More Starlink Satellites

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Feb 19, 20221 min read

SpaceX Launches Starlink 4-8 with 49 More Starlink Satellites

On Monday, February 20 at 9:44 am ET (16:13 UTC), SpaceX launched the Starlink Group 4 Launch 8 mission with 49 Starlink v1.5 satellites...

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Northrop Grumman Launches 17th Cygnus Resupply Mission

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Feb 18, 20221 min read

Northrop Grumman Launches 17th Cygnus Resupply Mission

On Saturday, February 19 at 12:40pm ET (17:40 UTC), Northrop Grumman launched the Cygnus CRS NG-17 resupply mission to the ISS atop an...

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Jared Issacman Announces the SpaceX Polaris Human Exploration Program

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Feb 14, 20222 min read

Jared Issacman Announces the SpaceX Polaris Human Exploration Program

On Monday, February 14, Jared Issacman, the commander of the Inspiration4 mission last September, announced the Polaris program. The...

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Roscosmos Launches Progress MS-19 to Resupply the ISS

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Feb 13, 20221 min read

Roscosmos Launches Progress MS-19 to Resupply the ISS

On Monday, February 14 at 11:25pm ET (04:25 UTC on February 15), Roscosmos launched the Progress MS-19 (also called Progress 80P)...

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Feb 12, 20221 min read

ISRO Launches EOS-04 on PSLV

On Sunday, February 13 at 7:29pm ET (00:29 UTC on Monday), ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) launched the EOS-04 satellite atop a...

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Fully stacked Starship for Elon Musk's presentation

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Feb 11, 20222 min read

Fully stacked Starship for Elon Musk's presentation

On February 3rd, Elon Musk announced the long-awaited starship update for which he assured there would be a full stack of booster 4 and...

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Roscomos and Arianespace Launch OneWeb 13

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Feb 9, 20221 min read

Roscomos and Arianespace Launch OneWeb 13

Credit: Arianespace On Thursday, February 10 at 1:09 pm ET (18:09 UTC), Arianespace and Roscosmos launched the OneWeb 13 mission with 34...

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Feb 5, 20221 min read

VKS Launches Secret Military Payload

On Saturday, February 5 at 2am ET (7:00 UTC), VKS (the Russian Aerospace Forces) launched an unknown reconnaissance satellite atop a...

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Astra Experiences Failure on ELaNa 41 mission

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Feb 4, 20222 min read

Astra Experiences Failure on ELaNa 41 mission

Credit: Astra/John Kraus On Thursday, February 10 at 3:00pm ET (21:00 UTC), Astra launched the ELaNA 41 mission for NASA atop the Rocket...

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ArianeGroup Opens New Subsidiary, MaiaSpace, to Create Reusable Rocket

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Feb 1, 20221 min read

ArianeGroup Opens New Subsidiary, MaiaSpace, to Create Reusable Rocket

ArianeGroup has opened a new subsidiary, named MaiaSpace, to create a small-lift partially reusable rocket named Maia. This is part of...

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