Tag: satellite deployment
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What happened to ISRO’s PSLV-C62 mission? An explained timeline
Overview: PSLV-C62 launch and payloads On the scheduled date, ISRO launched the PSLV-C62 rocket from the Sriharikota spaceport with the EOS-N1 satellite aboard, along with a cluster of 15 co-passenger satellites. The mission was billed as a routine multi-payload launch designed to advance India’s earth observation capabilities while carrying several smaller satellites for various test…
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China’s Space Milestone: A Record-Breaking Year of 93 Orbital Launches in 2025
Introduction: A Year of Extraordinary Momentum China capped 2025 with a remarkable achievement in space exploration by conducting 93 orbital launches—the most in a single year in the nation’s history. This milestone underscores China’s rapid maturation as a major space power and reinforces the strategic role of the state-led space sector in advancing scientific, commercial,…
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SpaceX Transporter-15: Over 100 Satellites Lift Off on a Fleet-Raising Rideshare Mission
Overview: A Landmark Rideshare Mission SpaceX is once again pushing the boundaries of commercial spaceflight with the Transporter-15 mission, a rideshare launch designed to deploy more than 100 small satellites into Earth orbit. The mission, carried out aboard a Falcon 9 rocket, exemplifies SpaceX’s strategy of consolidating hundreds of payloads into a single launch, dramatically…
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SpaceX achieves record doubleheader: two Falcon 9 launches from Florida with 58 Starlink satellites
Record-Breaking Doubleheader: SpaceX Fires Up Two Falcon 9 Rockets From Florida SpaceX pulled off a historic feat this weekend, staging a rapid-fire doubleheader that showcased the company’s growing cadence in orbital launches. From the Space Coast in Florida, two Falcon 9 rockets lifted off within roughly 3 1/2 hours of each other, each carrying a…
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China Sets New Pace with Weekend Launch Burst, Breaking Single-Year Record
Record-Breaking Weekend Push China has shattered its own annual launch record with a rapid-fire weekend that saw four rockets lift off in swift succession. The flurry brought the total number of orbital missions for 2025 to an impressive tally, underscoring a relentless push to expand the nation’s space capabilities. The weekend activity follows a year…
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Europe’s Path to Reusable Rockets: Callisto, Themis, and Skyhopper Forge a sovereign launch future
Europe Eyes Reusable Rockets by the Early 2030s Europe is accelerating its journey toward sovereign space launch capability by developing a fleet of reusable rockets. Led by ArianeGroup, the continent is planning a sequence of demonstrators—Callisto, Themis, and Skyhopper—that collectively aim to reduce costs, increase launch cadence, and strengthen Europe’s strategic independence in space access.…
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SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites from California, lands rocket at sea
SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites from California SpaceX added another batch of Starlink broadband satellites to its ever-growing megaconstellation on Oct. 27, lifting off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 28 Starlink satellites rose into the night sky at 8:43 p.m. EDT (5:43 p.m. local time), marking a routine…
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NISAR in Space: Vantor Captures First Look at NASA-ISRO’s Groundbreaking Radar Satellite
Vantor Captures NISAR in Full Deployment In a milestone for space imagery, Vantor—formerly Maxar Technologies—shared a striking photograph of the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) satellite in orbit. The image arrives after NISAR’s 12-m diameter radar antenna reflector completed its deployment in August 2025, marking a historic moment in the field of space-based radar imaging.…
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NISAR Satellite: Vantor Captures Spacewide Insight After Antenna Deployment
NISAR Satellite Memory: A Milestone in Space Imaging The NISAR mission, a joint venture between NASA and ISRO, marked a historic moment in space-based observation when Vantor, formerly Maxar Technologies, photographed the satellite in orbit after its giant 12-metre antenna reflector fully deployed in August 2025. The image, shared from Earth’s orbit, offers centimetre-level clarity…
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Watch SpaceX Launch 24 Amazon Kuiper Satellites Live: Progress on the Broadband Megaconstellation
SpaceX Launches 24 Amazon Kuiper Satellites from Cape Canaveral Tonight, the space and satellite communities are focusing on Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, where SpaceX is set to launch 24 more of Amazon’s Project Kuiper broadband satellites. The Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to lift off at 9:34 p.m. EDT (01:34 GMT on…