Blue Origin's New Shepard to return to flight - NASASpaceFlight.com (www.nasaspaceflight.com)
Report outlines lessons learned from first U.K. launch (spacenews.com)
Rocket Report: Signs of life from Blue Origin; SpaceX preps next Starship (arstechnica.com)
Space Force chief: Timing of Chinese spaceplane launch “no coincidence” (arstechnica.com)
Rocket Lab successfully completes return-to-flight Electron launch – Spaceflight Now (spaceflightnow.com)
Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket set for return to flight mission – Spaceflight Now (spaceflightnow.com)
Launch Roundup: Rocket Lab to return to flight; SpaceX set to launch Falcon 9 three times - NASASpaceFlight.com (www.nasaspaceflight.com)
On Thursday at 14:10 UTC, a Chang Zheng 2F/T rocket is expected to launch China’s reusable spaceplane into orbit from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in China. Very little is publicly known about this spaceplane, even less than the X-37B, which this vehicle is believed to be based on....
China’s reusable rocket race heats up with new hop test (spacenews.com)
ULA chief says Vulcan rocket will slip to 2024 after ground system issues (arstechnica.com)
Bruno made the announcement after the company attempted to complete a fueling test of the entire rocket, known as a wet dress rehearsal....
Rocket Report: The final space shuttle stack; SpaceX may extend booster lifetimes (arstechnica.com)
Egypt joins China's ILRS moon base initiative (spacenews.com)
Seems like countries are rapidly choosing sides between China’s ILRS and the USA’s Artemis Accords. I hope the 2030s are as exciting a space race as the Apollo era!
Launch Roundup: SpaceX continues toward 100 launch goal - NASASpaceFlight.com (www.nasaspaceflight.com)
A nice overview of upcoming launches:...
China launches internet technology test satellite from sea barge (spacenews.com)
HELSINKI — China launched a new internet technology experiment satellite from a sea platform Tuesday, apparently continuing tests for a low Earth orbit megaconstellation....
India reveals that it has returned lunar spacecraft to Earth orbit (arstechnica.com)
A little more than three months ago the Indian space agency, ISRO, achieved a major success by putting its Vikram lander safely down on the surface of the Moon. In doing so India became the fourth country to achieve a soft landing on the Moon, and this further ignited the country’s interest in space exploration....
Zhuque-2 rocket vertical on the pad ahead of launch later this week (nitter.net)
Source: Harry Stranger
30 years after its first repair mission, Hubble continues to observe the cosmos - NASASpaceFlight.com (www.nasaspaceflight.com)
Nice overview of the history of Hubble, the recent gyroscope issues, and the possibility of a repair and reboost mission (Polaris 2) to extend the life and utility of the telescope.
Rocket Report: A mysterious explosion in China; Firefly tests new engine (arstechnica.com)
A nice overview of various recent and upcoming spaceflight topics:...
[Progress MS-25] Russia launches space station cargo ship – Spaceflight Now (spaceflightnow.com)
Progress MS-25 launch:...
Blue Origin nearing New Glenn milestones ahead of debut flight - NASASpaceFlight.com (www.nasaspaceflight.com)
Shanghai to foster commercial space ecosystem (spacenews.com)
China is working on a design for a reusable air-launched orbital rocket (spacenews.com)
2023 has been another year with a record number of orbital launches (arstechnica.com)
Launch Roundup: Soyuz to resupply the ISS; SpaceX to launch more Starlink satellites - NASASpaceFlight.com (www.nasaspaceflight.com)
The week begins with Roscosmos planning to launch the Progress MS-25 resupply capsule on a Soyuz 2.1a up to the ISS from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Then, a Falcon 9 launch out of Vandenburg Space Force Base (VSFB) will take multiple different payloads to a Sun-synchronous orbit (SSO) in one launch and also has a return-to-launch...
Satellite imagery reveals explosion at China’s Jiuquan spaceport (spacenews.com)
