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Gunter Krebs @skyrocket.de · 28/09/2026

Starship in Orbit: Ship 41 seen from one of the deployed Starlink v3 satellites.

Gunter Krebs @skyrocket.de · 28/09/2026

SpaceX has for the 1st time launched Starship to orbit. Ship-41 & Booster-21 lost 1 Raptor engine each on ascend. 26 Starlink v3 sats were deployed. Then successful deorbit burn. Booster made water landing off coast of Texas & Ship near Hawaii. Congratulations to SpaceX.

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Gunter Krebs @skyrocket.de · 31/08/2026

A Falcon Heavy has launched NASA's Roman Space Telescope to the L2 point. It's a space telescope with a 2.4m primary mirror inherited from a defunct spy satellite program. It'll in IR survey vast regions of the Universe, probe dark energy & search for exoplanets. space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/wfi...

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Gunter Krebs @skyrocket.de · 25/08/2026

@SpaceX announced that today’s Starlink launch (Group 10-49) was the last planned Falcon 9 Starlink mission from Cape Canaveral. Future East Coast Starlink launches will use Starship, while Falcon 9 continues launching Starlinks from Vandenberg.

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Gunter Krebs @skyrocket.de · 19/08/2026

NASA and Katalyst have abandoned plans to boost the aging Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory after an attitude-control issue with the LINK servicer. LINK will still attempt rendezvous and proximity operations, gathering valuable data for future in-space servicing missions.

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Gunter Krebs @skyrocket.de · 19/08/2026

Chinese company LandSpace's 2nd flight of their Zhuque-3 orbital rocket performed a successful propulsive landing of stage 1. Stage 2 apparently reached orbit. The payload was likely a mass model.

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Gunter Krebs @skyrocket.de · 18/08/2026

There is a YouTube channel impersonating Gunter’s Space Page. I have NO connection to it & have reported it. Do not subscribe, engage or trust any accounts claiming to be me or the site that are not linked from space.skyrocket.de or my official accounts. Report it if you see it.

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Gunter Krebs @skyrocket.de · 10/08/2026

A Chinese CZ-7A was launched today from Wenchang, but the flight ended about ~80 seconds into the flight with an explosion. Reportedly it carried the military geostationary communications satellite ZX 4B. space.skyrocket.de/doc_lau_det/...

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Gunter Krebs @skyrocket.de · 18/07/2026

@SkyrootA 's Vikram-1, India's 1st privately developed orbital rocket, successfully launched 2 Cubesats & a number of hosted payloads into orbit on the 1st try. Congratulations! Although recontact at stage 3/4 separation, it did not cause a failure. space.skyrocket.de/doc_lau/vikr...

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Gunter Krebs @skyrocket.de · 27/05/2026

Announcement: Gunter's Space Page to Transition to a Paid Model — Gunter Krebs space.skyrocket.de

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Gunter Krebs @skyrocket.de · 19/04/2026

Mixed result for 3rd flight of @BlueOrigin's New Glenn rocket: Reflown stage 1 successfully launched & landed. Stage 2 underperformed & left @AST_SpaceMobile's Bluebird-7 sat in off-nominal orbit. Final orbital elements not yet released, but I'm not optimistic. space.skyrocket.de/doc_lau/new-...

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Gunter Krebs @skyrocket.de · 11/04/2026

Welcome back to Earth, Artemis II (Integrity)! Mission accomplished! Well done!

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Gunter Krebs @skyrocket.de · 02/04/2026

Humanity is finally back on the way to the Moon. The Artemis-2 mission with the crew of Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch & Jeremy Hansen has successfully started their 10 day voyage on a SLS Bl.1 rocket to fly around the moon. space.skyrocket.de/doc_lau_det/...

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Gunter Krebs @skyrocket.de · 23/03/2026

Sad to report the passing of Mike Melvill, pilot of the 1st commercial suborbital spaceflight. He flew 1st SpaceShipOne mission above the Kármán line & with SS1 spinning I didn’t expect him to return alive. He stayed calm, returned safely & flew a 2nd time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl3Y...

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Gunter Krebs @skyrocket.de · 10/03/2026

HEO (@heospace) has imaged @AST_SpaceMobile 's Bluebird 6 satellite in orbit. It looks significantly different from the illustrations on AST Space Mobile's website. x.com/heospace/sta...

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Gunter Krebs @skyrocket.de · 01/01/2026

The number of launches and especially of individual satellites have drastically increased in 2025.

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Gunter Krebs @skyrocket.de · 01/01/2026

And here are the launch statistics for 2025 by launch vehicle families: Note: * includes the marginally suborbital Starship launches * includes Iranian Zoljanah launch, which is unclear, if it was orbital attempt

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Gunter Krebs @skyrocket.de · 01/01/2026

As every year, here are the launch statistics for 2025 by country. Note: * includes the marginally suborbital Starship launches * includes Iranian Zoljanah launch, which is unclear, if it was orbital attempt * RocketLab launches are listed as New Zealand / USA

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Gunter Krebs @skyrocket.de · 05/06/2025

Wow - the Musk-Trump-bromance turns into a full-bloom divorce battle. Collateral damage may be crewed spaceflight, as Musk threatens to decommission the Dragon crewed spacecraft. I did not see this escalating so fast...

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Gunter Krebs @skyrocket.de · 07/03/2024

Wow, for the first time a got a KatWarn (a German catastrophe warning app) warning for reentering space debris (discarded ISS batteries).

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Gunter Krebs @skyrocket.de · 08/01/2024

Astrobotics Peregrine lunar lander has suffered shortly after launch a propulsion failure which led to a critical loss of propellants. I think, this likely rules out a lunar landing. :-( But perhaps some engineering data can be gathered.

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Gunter Krebs @skyrocket.de · 10/11/2023

A highlight from today from my email inbox: Some guy threats to start legal actions against me if I do not stop using my satellites to monitor him and to manipulate his brain waves.

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