NASA ADDS FUNDING TO BLUE ORIGIN AND VOYAGER SPACE COMMERCIAL SPACE STATION AGREEMENTS - NASA has added milestones and funding to agreements with two companies working on commercial space station concepts using money from a third agreement that ended last year. To plan, the Falcon 9's first stage came back to Earth about 8.5 mi. 7).Ī Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Starlink spacecraft lifted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 5:35 p.m. SPACEX LAUNCHES 23 STARLINK SATELLITES FROM FLORIDA - SpaceX launched 23 more of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit on Sunday (Jan. India joined a select group of nations already studying the sun four months after it became the first country to land an unmanned spacecraft. INDIAâ€™S FIRST SOLAR OBSERVATORY REACHES DESTINATION - India has achieved another milestone in space exploration by successfully placing a spacecraft in an orbit from which it will study the sun for five years.

ULA rolled out its first Vulcan rocket to the pad at Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral S. VULCAN ON THE PAD FOR ITS FIRST LAUNCH - After a decade of development, United Launch Allianceâ€™s Vulcan Centaur rocket is finally on the launch pad for its inaugural launch, carrying not just a lunar lander but also the companyâ€™s future. This mission was the first certification flight of Vulcan, an. ULA MARKS SUCCESS WITH THE INAUGURAL MISSION OF ITS VULCAN ROCKET LAUNCHING A MOON-BOUND ROBOTIC LANDER - With the companyâ€™s future riding on it, United Launch Allianceâ€™s first Vulcan rocket successfully put a commercial robotic lander on course for the Moon after lifting off from Cape Canaveralâ€™s pad 41 at 2:18 a.m. The spacecraft are part of the third generation â€” dubbed Tranche 2 â€” of SDAâ. The company joins Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, who received awards in August to develop 36 satellites each. ROCKET LAB TO BUILD MILITARY SATELLITES FOR SPACE DEVELOPMENT AGENCY - The Space Development Agency awarded Rocket Lab $515 million to build 18 data transport satellites. The island-wide security alert was sent by the d. MoreĬHINA SATELLITE LAUNCH PROMPTS TAIWAN ATTACK ALERT AHEAD OF PIVOTAL VOTE - Taiwan's government issued an air raid alert on Tuesday, saying a Chinese rocket carrying a satellite had flown over its southern airspace, which Taiwan's foreign minister described as part of a pattern of harassment days before a pivotal election. Crew Dragon Freedom will fly from Florida, with a multinational crew, for a. Axiom-3 will be flying four private astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS), becoming the first crew launch of 2024.

LAUNCH ROUNDUP: AXIOM-3 CREW AND TIANZHOU 7 CARGO SPACE STATION MISSIONS THIS WEEK - A pair of missions to space stations headline the launches for the week of Jan. 11 AFTER DELAYS - SpaceX is set to launch yet another batch of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit.Ī Falcon 9 rocket carrying 22 Starlink spacecraft is scheduled to lift off from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base on Thursday (Jan. SPACEX TO LAUNCH 22 STARLINK SATELLITES FROM CALIFORNIA EARLY JAN. 5.Īboard were four Tianmu-1 weather satellites, numbered 15-18. MoreĬHINA'S 1ST LAUNCH OF 2024 PUTS 4 SMALL WEATHER SATELLITES INTO ORBIT - A Kuaizhou 1A solid rocket lifted off from a transport erector launcher at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert at 6:20 a.m. Now that the military use of satellite-based communications systems for w. FOR SPACE POWER - China will start building this year its own version of StarLink, a satellite internet constellation using low Earth orbit, with plans of launching some 26,000 satellites to cover the entire world led by state-run companies. MoreĬHINA TO LAUNCH 26,000 SATELLITES, VYING WITH U.S. The standards-based approach comes after a proprietary-only strategy. IRIDIUM PIVOTS TO STANDARDIZED DIRECT-TO-DEVICE SATELLITE SERVICES - Iridium Communications plans to make its low Earth orbit constellation compatible with 5G standards used by mass-market smartphones, aiming to enable them to access messaging and SOS services outside cellular coverage from 2026. 10 the two unfurlable solar array wings it provided for Ovzon 3, the first commercial satellite to use the space technology companyâ€™s Roll-Out Solar Array (ROSA) hardware, have successfully deployed in geostationary orbit.Įach 10-meter-long ROSA is operating nominally followi. OVZON 3 SUCCESSFULLY DEPLOYS SOLAR ARRAYS IN GEOSTATIONARY ORBIT - Redwire said Jan.

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