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Archive for April 2nd, 2022

China’s cargo spacecraft re-enters Earth’s atmosphere, mostly burns up

April 2nd, 2022 by

China’s Tianzhou-2 cargo craft entered the Earth’s atmosphere under ground control, the China Manned Space Agency announced.

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SpaceX launches fourth transporter mission

April 2nd, 2022 by

Rocket: Falcon 9; Payload: Transporter 4 mission; Date: 1 April 2022, 1624 UTC; Launch site: Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, USA. On board this flight were 40 spacecraft, including CubeSats, microsats, picosats, non-deploying hosted payloads, and an orbital transfer vehicle carrying spacecraft to be deployed at a later time.

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Rocket Lab launches 112th satellite to orbit

April 2nd, 2022 by

Rocket: Electron; Payload: two BlackSky satellites; Date: 2 April 2022, 1241 UTC; Launch site: Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand. Electron successfully delivered the pair of BlackSky Gen-2 Earth-imaging satellites to a circular 430-km orbit, growing BlackSky’s constellation of real-time geospatial monitoring spacecraft to 14.

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