China continues its impressive launch cadence in 2023, with five more launches taking place in the past few weeks. These launches include a barge launch from the Gushenxing-1S rocket and multiple launches of Yaogan satellites. One of the recent launches involved the Gushenxing-1 rocket, which took off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center (JSLC) in […]
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In the first week of September, the space industry will witness four orbital launches and a single sub-orbital crewed launch. SpaceX kicked off the week with its Starlink Group 6-12 mission, followed by two consecutive missions by China, the Ceres-1S and Chang Zheng 4C. Virgin Galactic will also launch its fourth crewed mission in four […]
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On Aug. 19, the Russian spacecraft Luna 25 experienced a tragic accident during a planned orbit maneuver. After successfully completing an eight-day flight and two orbit corrections, Luna 25 was positioned in a circumlunar orbit with dimensions of 90 by 113 kilometers. The next step was to transfer to a pre-landing orbit with dimensions of […]
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Last week, the number of orbital launches decreased significantly compared to the previous week, with only three launches taking place. The majority of these launches were Chinese Starlink launches. This brings the total number of orbital launch attempts in 2023 to 128. If this pace continues, we can expect over 200 orbital launches by the […]
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In a busy week for space exploration, Russia has made significant strides with two missions. The first is the launch of GLONASS-K2, a fourth-generation radio navigation satellite, and the second is Roscosmos’s first mission to the Moon in over four decades, known as Luna 25. Meanwhile, SpaceX has launched multiple batches of its Starlink satellites, […]
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