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Ovzon announced that the Ovzon 3 satellite launch will be delayed and is planned to be launched in the second half of 2022.

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Vaya Space announced the successful launch of its hybrid rocket from Mojave, California on 29 January 2022 operating under an existing U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) waiver. The suborbital flight demonstrated its hybrid rocket design using 3D printed fuel grains created from recycled thermoplastics.

A modified version of China’s Chang Zheng 8 rocket is scheduled to make its debut flight in the coming weeks to transport 22 satellites into orbit, a designer said.

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Rocket: PSLV-C52; Payload: EOS-04 (formerly RISAT 1A), INSPIREsat-1, INS-2TD; Date: 14 February 2022, 0029 UTC; Launch site: Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, India. The satellites were deployed into 520 km × 533 km × 97.56 Sun-synchronous orbit.

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OneWeb confirmed the successful deployment of 34 satellites by Arianespace from the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana. This launch, the company’s first in 2022 and 13th overall, brings OneWeb’s total in-orbit constellation to 428 satellites. It represents 66% of OneWeb’s planned 648 LEO satellite fleet.

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Rocket Factory Augsburg AG (RFA) has partnered with Southern Launch, a South Australian rocket launch facility provider. The partnership allows for the German launcher RFA ONE to be launched from Southern Launch’s Whalers Way Orbital Launch Complex in South Australia. Southern Launch’s orbital complex provides direct ascent into Sun-synchronous and polar orbits.

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ESA in close collaboration with ArianeGroup and Arianespace has selected payloads which best fit the profile of the first mission of its new generation Ariane 6 launch vehicle from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.

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Rocket: Soyuz-2.1b/Fregat; Payload: 34 OneWeb satellites (OneWeb 13); Date: 10 February 2022, 1809 UTC; Launch site: Sinnamary, French Guiana. The launch went ahead as planned. The mission was expected to be completed 3 hours, 33 minutes after lift-off [too late for this issue.]