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I have takeoff of White Knight 2 at 1429:45 UTC (in agreement with their 8.30 am MDT) but landing of SS2 at 1532:48 UTC (9.32 am MDT). Release time 1517:10 UTC and SS2 free flight time 15:38 with apogee 88.5 km" ( Tweet) – via Twitter. ^ "Türkiye launches its first domestic probe rocket". 14 August 2023.
The ESSENCE, Iris, Moonlighter, RADSAT-SK, SC-ODIN and Ukpik-1 cubesats were deployed from the ISS on 6 July 2023. The Maya-5 and Maya-6 cubesats were deployed from the ISS on 19 July 2023. [ 182] 7 June.
The year 2023 saw rapid growth and significant technical achievements in spaceflight. For the third year in a row, new world records were set for both orbital launch attempts (223) and successful orbital launches (211). The growth in orbital launch cadence can in large part be attributed to SpaceX, as they increased their number of launches ...
60. 43. Success. First launch of Starlink "operational" satellites (v1.0), [ 34] with an increased mass of 260 kg each and included Ka-band antennas. [ 35] Satellites were released in a circular orbit at around 290 km altitude, from which the satellites raised their altitude by themselves. 3. L2. v1.0.
The heaviest payload launched to geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) was the 9,200 kg (20,300 lb) Jupiter-3 on 29 July 2023. Launches to higher-orbits have included DSCOVR to Sun–Earth Lagrange point L 1, TESS to a lunar flyby, a Tesla Roadster demonstration payload to a heliocentric orbit extending past the orbit of Mars, DART to the asteroid ...
Roscosmos / Belarus. Low Earth. Earth observation. RBKA will follow in the footsteps of BKA (Belarusian Satellite) launched along with Kanopus-V 1 and several other satellites in July 2012. 2030 (TBD)[ 42] Vega-C. Kourou ELV. Arianespace.
Mars 2020. Mars 2020 is a NASA mission that includes the rover Perseverance, the now-retired small robotic helicopter Ingenuity, and associated delivery systems, as part of the Mars Exploration Program. Mars 2020 was launched on an Atlas V rocket at 11:50:01 UTC on July 30, 2020, [2] and landed in the Martian crater Jezero on February 18, 2021 ...
Flight 26 was the first Electron flight to attempt a full catch recovery using a mid-air helicopter catch. "Scout's Arrow" was the first suborbital launch of the rocket. In July 2019, Rocket Lab expected to have launches every two weeks in 2020. [ 1] In June 2020, with a new Electron launch vehicle built every 18 days, Rocket Lab was planning ...