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In the past week, five rockets have blasted off from China's various launch sites carrying two dozen satellites into orbit. These launches also bring China's total number of launches this year up to 45! September 19th - Long March 3B/E Beginning the busy week of

Sep 25, 2024 • 6 mins

Welcome back to Weekly Dose of Space! This week had seven orbital launches occur, with most happening on the 20th. News this week had India approve several major space projects and SpaceX possibly moving to sue the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration. As always, we'll also look ahead

Sep 22, 2024 • 8 mins

NASA announced on September 17th that it had awarded Intuitive Machines with a contract to develop a lunar relay network. This contract is a firm-fixed-price, multiple award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity task order and has a maximum potential value of 4.82 billion United States dollars and will run from October 1st

Sep 19, 2024 • 2 mins

Falcon 9 has launched its second set of Galileo satellites on behalf of the European Galileo navigation system. This launch occurred from Space Launch Complex 40, in Flordia. Liftoff! pic.twitter.com/yG7YajyF2k — SpaceX (@SpaceX) September 17, 2024 The previous Galileo launch on Falcon 9 had the launch vehicle flying

Sep 18, 2024 • 4 mins

Welcome back to Weekly Dose of Space! This week once again had five orbital launches occur, with one being crewed. News this week had the first-ever commercial spacewalk and a Chinese company performing a major reusable rocket test. As always, we'll also look ahead to what the worldwide

Sep 15, 2024 • 5 mins

Back on September 10th, the Polaris Dawn mission lifted off from Launch Complex 39A, in Florida, at 09:23 am, Universal Coordinated Time. The mission is utilizing Crew Dragon C207 'Resilience', which was launched atop of a Falcon 9 with its booster, B1083, flying for the fourth time.

Sep 14, 2024 • 6 mins

SpaceX has decided to go on the offensive against the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration.

Sep 13, 2024 • 3 mins

LandSpace, a Chinese commercial launch company, announced that they had completed a 10-kilometer hop test. The hop test was using the company's Zhuque-3 VTVL-1 vehicle, with it launching and landing inside the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center for the test. This test was the first time a privately held

Sep 11, 2024 • 5 mins

After a few weather-related launch scrubs, Polaris Dawn lifted off from Launch Complex 39A atop of Falcon 9 at 09:23 am, Universal Coordinated Time, on September 10th. Crew Dragon C207 'Resilience' separated from Falcon 9 at T+12:16 after being delivered to a 195 by 1200

Sep 10, 2024 • 5 mins

Welcome back to Weekly Dose of Space! This week had five orbital launches occur, with one being the final flight of a European launch vehicle. News this week had Tianwen-3's launch moving two years closer, another nation joining the International Lunar Research Station, and Starliner returning to Earth.

Sep 8, 2024 • 7 mins

After almost three months docked to the International Space Station, Starliner finally began its return to Earth late on Friday the 6th of September, at 22:04 Universal Coordinated Time. Superb close-up of last night's @Boeing Starliner undock from the Space Station. Zoom in, you can see every

Sep 7, 2024 • 4 mins

Welcome to our eleventh Monthly Dose of Space! In this monthly newsletter, we bring you major news from the past month we haven't covered in our weekly newsletters. August has been yet another busy month worldwide, so let's jump into it! SpaceX This month at Starbase

Sep 1, 2024 • 16 mins

Welcome back to Weekly Dose of Space! This week had five launches above the Kármán line worldwide. News this week had Firefly Aerospace bring a new Chief Executive Officer onboard, and ABL Space Systems sharing an update into its recent static fire anomaly. As always, we'll also look

Sep 1, 2024 • 6 mins