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Welcome to Weekly Dose of Space! This week saw a handful of launches with some exciting news this week, including hop tests and a return to flight! We'll also look ahead to next week's launch schedule too. SpaceX SpaceX has had a busy week as always

Dec 17, 2023 • 5 mins

On the 15th of December 2023 at 04:05 am (UTC), Electron lifted off from Launch Complex 1 on the Mahia peninsula in New Zealand. The return-to-flight launch carried a satellite from iQPS, called TSUKUYOMI-I, to low Earth orbit for the forty-second launch attempt of Electron. The TSUKUYOMI-I satellite is

Dec 16, 2023 • 2 mins

Recently, owner and founder of Blue Origin Jeff Bezos was a guest on the Lex Fridman Podcast, hosted by Lex Fridman. During the over two-hour podcast, Bezos made some new insights into the largely secretive Blue Origin. This article will be broken down into three sections; Blue Ring, New Glenn,

Dec 15, 2023 • 3 mins

On the 13th of December, the UK-based space launch service company Orbex announced it had received 3.3 million Pound sterling, which is roughly equivalent to 4.165 million United States Dollars as of writing, from the UK Space Agency under the European Space Agency's 'Boost!'

Dec 14, 2023 • 3 mins

After the third launch of LandSpace's Zhuque-2 rocket, the company revealed more information regarding its Zhuque-3 launch vehicle. Zhuque-3 is LandSpace's in-development partially re-usable medium to heavy lift launch vehicle. LandSpace plans for Zhuque-3 to burn liquid methane and liquid oxygen fuels in its engines, the

Dec 13, 2023 • 3 mins

On the 10th of December, a Long March 2D lifted off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southern China. The payload for the launch was a Yaogan reconnaissance satellite heading to low Earth orbit. While a regular launch at first glance, this was the 500th launch of a Long

Dec 12, 2023 • 3 mins

On the 8th of December, Greenwich Mean Time, or the 9th of December, China Standard Time, LandSpace launched its Zhuque-2 rocket for the third time. This launch was the first time the rocket delivered a payload to orbit, and the first time a rocket burning liquid methane successfully placed payloads

Dec 11, 2023 • 3 mins

Welcome to Weekly Dose of Space! This week saw plenty of launches with some big news this week. We'll also look ahead to the busy launch schedule next week too! SpaceX SpaceX started its week at Starbase, on the 3rd, by installing a sign at the launch site

Dec 10, 2023 • 7 mins

Disclaimer: This article may contain the opinion of the writer and not Cosmic Nxws as a whole in some parts of the article. With the recent success of Super Heavy booster 9 during Starship-Super Heavy's second integrated flight test, the conversation around the Soviet N1 rocket has begun

Dec 9, 2023 • 6 mins

Since the end of the Apollo program, NASA has been no stranger to sending robotic explorers to planets and moons to perform science instead of crews. Today, the agency is looking into potentially its most ambitious robot explorer to date. The Dragonfly spacecraft is NASA's planned robotic explorer

Dec 7, 2023 • 3 mins

Welcome to Weekly Dose of Space! In this week's newsletter, we'll cover the three launches of the week and the news of the past week. We'll also look ahead into what to expect next week too! SpaceX SpaceX has continued to move hardware around

Dec 3, 2023 • 6 mins

Welcome to our second Monthly Dose of Space! In this monthly newsletter, we bring you all of the major news from the past month! November has had some pretty interesting moments, so let's jump into it! SpaceX SpaceX has had a monumental month this November with the second

Dec 1, 2023 • 16 mins

Disclaimer: This article contains the opinion of the writer and not Cosmic Nxws as a whole. Additional Disclaimer: Information on some variants may have been released after the publication of this article due to the national security nature of the F-15. Some necessary information may also not be available. The

Nov 28, 2023 • 6 mins