taking its total number of Falcon flights to 97. If you want to throw in its Starship missions as well, both of which failed soon after launch, then the total increases to 99 liftoffs completed by SpaceX in 2023.
December 23, 2024 – January 5, 2025 / Vol 43, Nos 52 – 53 / Hawai`i Island, USA India Space Docking Experiment (SPADEX) Launch NET Dec 30 to Aid Chandrayaan-4 and Human Missions ISRO final 2024 launch, planned for NET December 30, will carry the dual-satellite Space Docking Exper...
SpaceX’s Starship is the most powerful launch system ever built, dwarfing even the mighty Saturn V both in terms of mass and total thrust. The scale of the vehicle is such that concerns have been raised about the impact each launch of the megarocket may have on the local environment. Wh...
North Korea finally succeeded with launching a spy satellite in November 2023. Click to enlarge. At the end of 2015, the Euclid space observatory was promised to launch in December 2020 on a Soyuz rocket. By the middle of 2020, the launch was promised in 2022. By October 2022, ESA arrang...
It said the launch site is designed with two launch pads for liquid propellant rockets and another two for solid propellant rockets, with its No.1 and No.2 launch pads completed in December 2023 and June 2024, respectively. The No.1 pad is designed for the Long March-8, China's new ge...
4, 2023. It has been updated periodically since then to reflect new information in Starship's launch campaign. Topics SpaceX NASA Elisha Sauers Elisha Sauers writes about space for Mashable, taking deep dives into NASA's moon and Mars missions, chatting up astronauts and history-making ...
Tuesday / 3 December 2024 Two Lunar Landers at Kennedy Space Center Awaiting Launch, Third Will Soon Arrive JAXA / ispace lunar lander Mission 2Resilienceis now at KSCpreparing to carryTenaciousmicro rover / commercial payloads including a model house to Mare Figoris, 60.5° N, 4.6° W, is...
The mishap underscored the risks of space exploration. Space Pioneer, a rising star in the industry, had previously achieved the maiden launch of a medium-sized liquid rocket in 2023. However, the accident highlighted the need for stricter safety standards and regulatory oversight to ensure sustaina...
December 20, 2023 at 11:06 PM that time when 3 moon astronauts once flew, supersonic-style, by a NASA lunar rocket on the pad NASA's T-38 jets fly in formation above the Space Launch System rocket for Artemis 1 on Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.(Image credit: NASA...
December 4 2024 Orbex suspends Scottish spaceport in blow to Highlands ambitions Company will shift launch site to SaxaVord in Shetland Islands November 20 2024 Space Exploration Technologies Corp SpaceX abandons attempt to catch Starship booster as Trump watches ...