Gunter Krebs

R.I.P., Walter Koenig. 😢 Forever remembered for his iconic roles as Pavel Chekov in Star Trek and Alfred Bester in Babylon 5

Then I'm the ENEMY! The term "super intelligence" is neither more accurate nor is it highly accepted. Only Trump's sycophants use this term. But people knowledgable and working in this field use the established "artificial intelligence". This is not 1984, we do not use newspeak! Nor Trumpspeak!

An old defunct Soviet weather satellite, Meteor-2 7, has suffered a break-up event in orbit on 5 october 2026. Some tens of fragments have been detected. space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/met... x.com/shell_jim/st...

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

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.

Top Pentagon officials confirm the US operates “on-orbit space control weapons” (definition unclear) to defend against attacks - the clearest admission yet. China & Russia slam it as escalation. We have not yet identified the satellites related to this although there are suspects.

Isar Aerospace (Germany) has successfully conducted the 2nd launch of the Spectrum launch vehicle from Andøya Spaceport, Norway. It deployed some CubeSats. It marks the 1st orbital launch of a German rocket & 1st successful orbital launch from western Europe. space.skyrocket.de/doc_lau/spec...

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...

@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.

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.

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.

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.

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/...

Reportedly SpaceX is turning away customers for dedicated Falcon 9 launches beyond 2028 & has stopped accepting new F9 rideshare reservations. Also halting production of sm expendable hardware (inc. upperstages), signaling a major shift to not yet operational Starship (Bloomberg).

@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...

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

A Vega-C rocket has successfully launched the joint European-Chinese SMILE satellite. It is research mission to investigate the interaction of solar wind with Earth's magnetosphere and ionosphere. space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/smi...

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

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/...

Yesterday China successfully conducted the maiden flight of the Lijian-2 (Kinetica-2) liquid fueled launch vehicle. It carried three satellites, among them the prototype of the Qingzhou transporter to be used to supply the Chinese Space Station. space.skyrocket.de/doc_lau/liji...

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...

Firefly Alpha successfully returned to flight. The last flight of the Block 1 version tested systems for Block 2 and put a Lockheed Martin Technology Test payload (possibly similar to the one lost in the last launch failure) in orbit. space.skyrocket.de/doc_lau/fire...

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...

A SpaceX Falcon-9 booster has launched the large EchoStar 25 direct broadcasting satellite to a geosynchronous transfer orbit. The 6800 kg satellite was built by Lanteris (formerly Maxar). space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/ech...

Space One's KAIROS small solid fueled launch vehicle has launched for the 3rd time from Spaceport Kii and again failed to reach orbit. About 1 min into the flight an energetic event was observed. 5 small satellites were lost. space.skyrocket.de/doc_lau/kair...

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

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

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

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...

Some users had problem accessing Gunter's Space Page during the past few hours. This was caused by an invalid certificate. The issue has now been corrected and accessing the website should work as usual now. Please let me know, if you still have issues. space.skyrocket.de

"Trump says Palestinians should leave Gaza permanently and US will ‘take over’ strip" What the FCK is wrong with this guy? (Question is rhetorical!) His ideas of diplomacy are equivalent to using a chainsaw for brain surgery! We, the world, are so screwed! edition.cnn.com/2025/02/04/p...

I wonder, when SpaceX and Tesla will realize, that Elon Musk has become a massive liability for them.

Dear crowd, does anyone know if the very first RocketLab Electron rocket ('It's a test') carried already the Kick Stage? IIRC, the Kick Stage was only announced on the 2nd flight. Currently I have listed the 1st flight in my database as having no kick stage, but i still lack a solid confirmation.

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

Intuitive Machines' Nova-C IM1 lander (Odysseus), the 2nd mission in NASA's CLPS program, has landed on the moon. A weak signal has been received, but it is too weak to transmit data. Let's see, if a communication can be established. space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/nov...

The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has launched the Suraya satellite (purpose unknow, possibly communications) on the 1st successful orbital flight of the Qaem-100 rocket, reaching a 750 km orbit. Launch site was the Shahroud Missile Test Site. space.skyrocket.de/doc_lau/qaem...

The Japanese SLIM lunar lander has successfully landed at Shioli crater. Both the LEV-1 nanohopper & LEV-2 the nanorover have been deployed. Unfortunately the solar array malfunctioned and the mission will only last until the batteries run out of power. space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/sli...

Chinese company Orienspace has performed the maiden launch of their Yinli-1 (Gravity-1) solid-fueled launcher from a barge in the Yellow Sea. It successfully placed 3 Yunyao-1 earth observation sats into orbit. space.skyrocket.de/doc_lau/yinl...

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.

Payload for the 1st Vulcan launch was @astrobotic Peregrine lunar lander - the first mission under NASA's CLPS program. It carries several payloads for NASA and Additionally a @celestisflights capsule with human remains was attached to the Centaur stage. space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/per...

@ulalaunch Vulcan rocket has successfully conducted its maiden flight. It is powered by 2 @blueorigin built BE-4 engines fueled with LNG/LOX. 2 GEM-63XL solid fuel boosters provided additional thrust. A dual engine Centaur-5 was the upper stage. space.skyrocket.de/doc_lau/vulc...