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ESA gets ready for double Venus flyby

August 3rd, 2021 by

Solar Orbiter and BepiColombo are set to perform two Venus flybys just 33 hours apart on 9 and 10 August. The two spacecraft need the gravitational swingby to help them lose a little orbital energy in order to reach their destinations towards the centre of the Solar System.

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Lucy spacecraft arrives at launch site

August 3rd, 2021 by

The first spacecraft to explore Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids arrived at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on 30 July. The Southwest Research Institute-led mission is beginning final preparations for launch.

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Delay of the day: Atlas V/Starliner

August 3rd, 2021 by

Boeing postponed the launch of its Starliner spacecraft due to problems detected with valves in the capsule’s propulsion system and reset a potential launch for 4 August.

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India to launch EOS-3 (GISAT-1) satellite in Q3 2021

August 3rd, 2021 by

The Indian government has announced that the country’s first state-of-the-art agile Earth observation satellite from geostationary orbit is scheduled for launch in the third quarter of 2021. The 2.26-tonne spacecraft will provide near real-time imaging of a large region of interest at frequent intervals.

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Next Soyuz/OneWeb launch moved to 20 August

August 3rd, 2021 by

Russia will launch the next batch of OneWeb satellites from the Baikonur cosmodrome on 20 August, Dmitry Rogozin, director general of state space corporation Roskosmos, was quoted as saying.

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