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This article lists orbital and suborbital launches planned for the second half of the year 2023, including launches planned for 2023 without a specific launch date. For all other spaceflight activities, see 2023 in spaceflight. For launches in the first half of 2023, see List of spaceflight launches in January–June 2023.
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 ...
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.
A highly technical process began Thursday in Los Angeles to put NASA's retired Space Shuttle Endeavour on permanent display in the vertical launch position complete with external tank and two ...
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.
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.
Galactic 03. Galactic 03 ( G03) was a crewed sub-orbital spaceflight of the SpaceShipTwo -class VSS Unity, launched on 8 September 2023. It was the third commercial spaceflight and eighth overall spaceflight for American aerospace company Virgin Galactic. [1]
Starship integrated flight test 1 was the first flight test of the SpaceX Starship launch vehicle. SpaceX performed the flight test on April 20, 2023. [ 3] The prototype vehicle was destroyed less than four minutes after lifting off from the SpaceX Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas. [ 4] The vehicle became the most powerful rocket ever flown ...