BEIJING, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- China has planned more than 60 space launches for the year 2023. The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) is expected to have more than 50 launches, and other Chinese space enterprises will have more than 10 launches. Among them, carrier ro...
The launches include the maiden flight from China's first commercial spacecraft launch site, in addition to more satellite lift-offs to form constellations, according to the press conference. China's first commercial spacecraft launch site is now under construction in the city of Wenchang, in sou...
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket with the Psyche spacecraft launches from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Oct. 13, 2023. Chandan Khanna | AFP | Getty Images Elon Musk'sSpaceX smashed its previous annual record for orbital rocket launches, pulling off 96 successful mis...
About 60% of SpaceX's launches in 2023 have been dedicated Starlink missions. SpaceX's latest Starship prototype sits atop the orbital launch mount at the company's Starbase site in South Texas on Oct. 16, 2023. (Image credit: SpaceX) RELATED STORIES: — Starship and Super Heavy...
Russian space program in 2023On January 30, the head of RKTs Progress Dmitry Baranov was quoted by the official TASS news agency as promising "around 20" launches of Soyuz rockets during 2023. With two or three Proton launches and couple of Angara missions, Russia could make more than two ...
SpaceX's Starship rocket launches from Starbase during its second test flight in Boca Chica, Texas, on Nov. 18, 2023. Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images SpaceX congratulated its team on a successful lift-off and booster separation, which comes months after the booster failed to separate...
The latter half of the year will feature several exciting launches, with the launch of the Martian Moons eXploration mission in September, Europa Clipper and Hera in October andArtemis IIand VIPER to the Moon in November – if everything goes as planned. ...
The carrier rocket Long March-6C will make its maiden flight in 2023, while the Long March carrier rocket series are expected to exceed 500 launches in aggregate, said the CASC report.
Related: SpaceX launches its 29th cargo mission to the International Space Station A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket's first stage lands on the droneship "A Shortfall of Gravitas" on Sunday, Nov. 12, 2023. (Image credit: SpaceX (via X)) The Falcon 9's first stage came back to Earth and mad...
January features two major rocket launches to look out for SpaceX has smashed a record that it set last year SpaceX gets green light for seventh Starship test, but when is it? Watch SpaceX fire up Starship spacecraft engines ahead of 7th test flight ...