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Maiden flight of Space Pioneer's Tianlong-2 launch vehicle. First successful launch of a Chinese privately funded, liquid fueled kerolox rocket. Space Pioneer became the first private company to successfully launch a liquid fueled rocket to orbit on its first attempt. 2 April 14:29 [98] Falcon 9 Block 5: F9-215 Vandenberg SLC-4E: SpaceX
The growth in orbital launch cadence can in large part be attributed to SpaceX, as they increased their number of launches from 61 in 2022 to 98 in 2023. The deployment of the Starlink satellite megaconstellation was a major contributing factor to this increase over previous years.
This article lists orbital and suborbital launches planned for the second half of the year 2023, including launches planned for 2023 without a specific launch date. For all other spaceflight activities, see 2023 in spaceflight. For launches in the first half of 2023, see List of spaceflight launches in January–June 2023. For launches in 2024 ...
All flights on the current launch manifest are for the Artemis program, a human spaceflight project aimed at establishing a permanent human presence on the Moon. The flights will launch from the vehicle's dedicated pad at Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39B (LC-39B).
Rockets from the Falcon 9 family have a success rate of 99.32% and have been launched 439 times over 15 years, resulting in 436 full successes, two in-flight failures (SpaceX CRS-7 and Starlink Group 9–3), one pre-flight failure (AMOS-6 while being prepared for an on-pad static fire test), and one partial failure (SpaceX CRS-1, which delivered its cargo to the International Space Station ...
[5] [6] [7] VA253 activities were listed among the top priorities at the reopening of the Guiana Space Center on 11 May 2020. [8] The launch was rescheduled for end of July 2020 [ 6 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] to place the satellites into a geostationary transfer orbit from which they will eventually be placed into geostationary orbit through their own ...
First launch of operational Starlink satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base, and first launch into a high-inclination, non-SSO orbit. Musk stated that the operational satellites were version 1.5 and featured "laser inter-satellite links, which are needed for high latitudes and mid-ocean coverage". [67] 31 Group 4-1 v1.5 2021-104
First crewed spaceflight (above 50 miles) from New Mexico [81] 22: 11 July 2021 86.1 km (53.5 mi) [82] Mackay / Masucci / Sirisha Bandla, Colin Bennett, Beth Moses, Richard Branson First fully crewed [note 1] flight included Richard Branson. 24 / GF10 26 April 2023 9 minutes 13.5 km (47,000 ft) Sturckow / Pecile [83] 25: 25 May 2023 14 minutes