Proxima Report

Last night, Rocket Lab's Electron rocket flew on a suborbital path to throw Hypersonix's very pointy 'DART AE' out across the Atlantic for a short hypersonic test flight Details -> https://lnkd.in/e4a6RxM5

NASA has pushed back its next crewed lunar landing to the Artemis IV mission in 2028, which will use a redesigned version of the SLS rocket Details -> https://lnkd.in/ef8KcVdV

This week saw four launches adding to the Starlink internet constellation in low Earth orbit, while NASA set April as Artemis II's launch period and LandSpace looks to land Zhuque-3 in the coming weeks Details -> https://lnkd.in/eidsHHJf

In a report released yesterday, NASA has declared Starliner's 2024 crewed flight test to be a major mishap due to hardware and organizational failures Details -> https://lnkd.in/eZ7tht-K

This week had six rockets heading into orbit, most of which on one day, while a new crew arrived on board the International Space Station, and China tested its next-generation crewed spacecraft Details -> https://lnkd.in/ekxf4EyY

Crew-12 astronauts Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway, Sophie Adenot, and Andrey Fedyaev are enroute to the International Space Station following a launch from Florida earlier today Details -> https://lnkd.in/ez9dXmfY

Ariane 6 has flown with four boosters for the first time, carrying 32 satellites into low Earth orbit for Amazon's Leo internet constellation Details -> https://lnkd.in/eJ6C_9tG

United Launch Alliance's Vulcan rocket departed Space Launch Complex 41 earlier today, with a minor booster anomaly, carrying at least two spacecraft for the U.S. Space Force toward geosynchronous space Details -> https://lnkd.in/eVyAuVhw

This week saw four orbital launches worldwide, including the failure and return-to-flight of Falcon 9, while news on Earth saw the Artemis II mission moved to March and China preparing to test its Mengzhou capsule. Details -> https://lnkd.in/eJPedigk

SpaceX's Falcon 9 has experienced its fourth in-space anomaly within two years, following a recent Starlink mission Details -> https://lnkd.in/eujwQqZf