Space missions to watch in 2023

[Huxter]

https://www.space.com/space-missions-to-watch-this-year
Includes a Chinese space telescope (comparable to Hubble in size) that can dock w their space station for repairs, upgrades... Pretty cool!

 

[CalebJ]

Does that mean they're putting it in a much lower orbit?

 

[AllDigital]

LEO would be preferred if you are pointing that big daddy back towards earth

 

[OverTheTop]

Two Falcon Heavy launches are scheduled for January.

 

[Hobie1dog]

finally, there's lots of interest in space again.

 

[ThirstyBarbarian]

The first couple of paragraphs about the Starship flights sound like they were written a year or two ago and not updated with the new target dates very well.

SpaceX plans to fly a Starship spacecraft to orbit for the first time early next year. The company is targeting early March for its first Starship orbital launch, with as many as a dozen test flights to follow in 2022.


Both the Starship vehicle and its Super Heavy booster are now complete, and the launch pad and tower at the company's South Texas launch site were expected to be completed by the end of 2021. If all goes according to plan, the inaugural flight will place Starship in orbit for a brief period of time before reentering Earth's atmosphere and splashing down in the Pacific Ocean.

Starship consists of two elements, both of which are designed to be fully and rapidly reusable. If SpaceX is able to recover and reuse Starship during this year's test flights, operational missions could begin in 2023. The company plans to eventually use Starship for crewed missions to Mars.

 

[georgegassaway]

The first couple of paragraphs about the Starship flights sound like they were written a year or two ago and not updated with the new target dates very well.

And, maybe a year from now there will be an article about the first planned orbital launch of Starship in early 2024. In early June 2021, Elon Musk said it was going to launch by end of July 2021. They scrapped that booster and built 7 more, and a bunch more Starships after scrapping others or setting thme aside, never to fly. To me. showing how not ready to fly they were.

They (and the massive fanboi base) used the FAA excuse too much, recent events shows FAA wasn't what was stopping them from being ready with a good vehicle, and a good PAD.

 

[emmah]

I’m looking forward to Dream Chaser’s first flight.

 

[Funkworks]

I’ll go with this list.