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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 ...
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.
2022 in spaceflight. The year 2022 witnessed the number of launches of SpaceX 's Falcon rocket family (61 launches) surpassing the CNSA 's Long March rocket family (53 launches), making the United States the country with the highest number of launches in 2022 instead of China. This year also featured the first successful launch of Long March 6A ...
Planned first orbit of a moon other than Earth's. China plans to return samples from Mars by 2031. A joint NASA/ESA project plans to return samples from Mars by 2033. Dragonfly is expected to reach Titan in 2036.
Axiom Mission 2 (or Ax-2) was a private crewed spaceflight operated by Axiom Space. Ax-2 was launched on 21 May 2023 on a SpaceX Falcon 9, successfully docking with the International Space Station (ISS)on 22 May. [ 3][ 2] After eight days docked to the ISS, the Dragon crew capsule Freedom undocked and returned to Earth twelve hours later. [ 4 ...
Crewed spaceflight: 3 June 2023 22:33: Successful Fourth crewed flight to the Tiangong space station. The first Chinese crew handover in space will be performed between the crews of Shenzhou 14 and Shenzhou 15 onboard the TSS. 30 November 21:10:25 [183] Soyuz-2.1b: Plesetsk Site 43/4: RVSN RF: Lotos-S1 №6 (Kosmos 2565) Ministry of Defence ...
Expedition 68 was the 68th long-duration expedition to the International Space Station. The expedition began upon the departure of Soyuz MS-21 on 29 September 2022 [ 2] with ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti taking over as ISS commander [ 3] and ended upon the uncrewed departure of the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft on 28 March 2023. Expedition 68 ...