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A launch service provider is a type of company that uses launch vehicles and related services provided by a Launch Agency, including furnishing the launch vehicles, launch support, equipment and facilities, for the purpose of launching satellites into orbits or deep space. [1]
Docking of two vehicles in space has previously only been achieved by the Soviet Union/Russia, United States, ESA, and China. Kuiper Systems , Amazon's satellite internet subsidiary, plans to ramp up launches for its constellation of over 3,000 satellites.
Lists of orbital launch vehicles by payload capacity: Small-lift launch vehicle (up to 2,000 kg to Low Earth Orbit (LEO)) Medium-lift launch vehicle (from 2,000 to 20,000 kg to LEO) Heavy-lift launch vehicle (from 20,000 to 50,000 kg to LEO) Super heavy-lift launch vehicle (beyond 50,000 kg to LEO)
Falcon 9 Block 5, the most prolific active orbital launch system in the world.. This comparison of orbital launch systems lists the attributes of all current and future individual rocket configurations designed to reach orbit.
On 20 March, China launched its relay satellite, Queqiao-2, to lunar orbit, along with two mini satellites Tiandu 1 and 2. Queqiao-2 will relay communications for the Chang'e 6 (far side of the Moon), Chang'e 7 and Chang'e 8 (Lunar south pole region) spacecrafts.
On 9 March 2021, China and Russia signed a “Memorandum of Understanding between the Government of the People’s Republic of China and the Government of the Russian Federation Regarding Cooperation for the Construction of the International Lunar Research Station.” [14] On 16 June 2021, Roscosmos and the China National Space Administration (CNSA) held a joint session in St. Petersburg ...
Said to have only had one payload aboard during its 2018 launch, observers detected a secondary object separate from TJS-3 in orbit. The object was originally labeled by the United States Space Force as an apogee kick motor (AKM), a final-impulse motor often discarded by satellites entering their terminal geostationary orbit. [ 18 ]
A medium-lift launch vehicle (MLV) is a rocket launch vehicle that is capable of lifting between 2,000 to 20,000 kg (4,400 to 44,100 lb) by NASA classification or between 5,000 to 20,000 kilograms (11,000 to 44,000 lb) by Russian classification [1] of payload into low Earth orbit (LEO). [2]