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This month in Space! - September 2023

This month has had over twenty rocket launches worldwide with some failures and hundreds of satellites placed into orbit. Here's a recap for September 2023. All dates are relative to

Jack Congram

3 Oct 2023 · 9 min read

OSIRIS-REx returns asteroid samples to Earth!

After seven years in space and almost three years since collecting its samples the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft dropped off the sample return capsule to Earth while on a flyby of the

Jack Congram

25 Sep 2023 · 2 min read

SpaceX reuses a booster for the 200th time

Early on the 24th of September 2023 a Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 in Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying twenty-two more Starlink satellites into low Earth

Jack Congram

24 Sep 2023 · 2 min read

Three more astronauts board the ISS

On September the 15th at 15:44 UTC a Soyuz 2.1a lifted off carrying Soyuz MS-24 from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Soyuz MS-24 is carrying three crew members to

Jack Congram

16 Sep 2023 · 2 min read

Firefly launches Alpha with 24-hour notice

Firefly Aerospace recently launched its Alpha rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California for the United States Department of Defense. Firefly was given the notice to launch from the

Jack Congram

15 Sep 2023 · 2 min read

ULA launches 'SILENTBARKER' for the USSF & NRO

At 12:47 pm UTC on the 10th of September 2023, a United Launch Alliance Atlas V lifted off from Space Launch Complex 41 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. United Launch

Jack Congram

10 Sep 2023 · 2 min read

SpaceX makes its 150th booster landing in a row!

Early on the 9th of September 2023 a SpaceX Falcon 9 lifted off from SLC-40 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The rocket was carrying twenty-two more satellites for SpaceX Starlink internet

Jack Congram

9 Sep 2023 · 2 min read

Japan launches a Lunar lander and space telescope

On the 7th of September at 8:42 a.m. Japan Standard Time, a H-IIA lifted off from the Tanegashima Space Center carrying the XRISM space telescope and the SLIM

Jack Congram

7 Sep 2023 · 3 min read

India launches its first solar observatory!

At 11:20 Indian Standard Time on the 2nd of September 2023, a PSLV, also called Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, lifted off from Satish Dhawan Space Centre carrying the Aditya-L1

Jack Congram

2 Sep 2023 · 3 min read

This month in Space! - August 2023

This month has had well over a dozen rocket launches worldwide with a big focus on the Moon & a spacewalk on the International Space Station. Here's a recap for August

Jack Congram

31 Aug 2023 · 11 min read

Crew-7 heads to the International Space Station

Early in the morning of August 26th, 2023, SpaceX launched Crew-7 to the International Space Station for NASA as part of its Commercial Crew Program. This is SpaceX's eleventh time

Jack Congram

26 Aug 2023 · 3 min read

SpaceX fires 33 Raptor engines together for the first time!

At 12:36 CDT on August 25th 2023, SpaceX's Super Heavy Booster 9 fired up its engines for its second static fire test. This static fire saw all thirty-three engines

Jack Congram

25 Aug 2023 · 2 min read

Rocket Lab re-flies an engine for the first time!

On August the 24th 2023 at 11:45 am NZST, Rocket Lab's Electron rocket lifted off from Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula. The rocket deployed one

Jack Congram

24 Aug 2023 · 2 min read

India lands on the Moon!

At 12:32 UTC on the 23rd of August, Chandrayaan-3 successfully touched down on the Lunar surface! The landing makes India the fourth country to successfully touchdown with a soft

Jack Congram

23 Aug 2023 · 1 min read

Luna 25 lander crashes into the Lunar Surface

On August the 19th 2023, Roscosmos reported that an orbital maneuver had started to lower the spacecraft to a pre-landing orbit but suffered an "emergency situation on board". Through unofficial

Jack Congram

20 Aug 2023 · 1 min read

Chandrayaan-3 & Luna 25 are in orbit around the Moon!

In recent days both Chandrayaan-3 and Luna 25 have entered orbit around the Moon ahead of landing on the Lunar surface. Luna 25 is planned to land on August the

Jack Congram

19 Aug 2023 · 2 min read

SpaceX looking at no earlier than August 31st for Starship IFT-2

Recently the United States Coast Guard published a notice to mariners around the water east of Brownsville, Texas. The notice from the United States Coast Guard reads as follows; "On

Jack Congram

17 Aug 2023 · 3 min read

Linus Media Group hit with claims of workplace abuse alongside business malpractice

Article written by Stefanie Dietrich, Jack Congram, and Tyler G. We'd like to disclose that before you continue reading this article mentions self-harm and sexual harassment. If you are sensitive

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16 Aug 2023 · 3 min read