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anvil clouds are obstructing the launch, expected to clear for launch by 6:30 pm edt

two of the Themis spacecraft ended up orbiting the moon instead of the earth

Nuri successfully placed a payload into orbit, meaning South Korea now has a domestic orbital launch capability https://spacenews.com/south-korean-rocket-puts-satellites-in-orbit-for-the-first-time-in-second-flight/

too bad they don't have the upgraded astronaut complex that lets you do that in orbit

Liftoff!

Noting a lack of internal footage, when will we see the 0-g indicator?

The last part is because at certain speeds there is a danger of the boosters recontacting the core

Spacecraft separated

Cosmos 2555 is dead, destructive reentry imminent https://techartica.com/cosmos-2555-is-set-to-burn-cosmos-2555-will-be-burned/

hold at t-12min

New exoplanets 32 ly away https://phys.org/news/2022-04-rocky-exoplanets-nearby-star.html

Mission extension confirmed, going to Apophis in 2029! https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-extends-exploration-for-8-planetary-science-missions

Ax-1 just separated from the ISS https://youtu.be/GBFZghqrI_4

CSNA has announced plans for a kinetic impactor asteroid deflection test https://spacenews.com/china-to-conduct-asteroid-deflection-test-around-2025/

They seem to be operating under the assumption that the propellants are fully combusted, though the variable flames coming out of the rocket and their first test suggest otherwise.

here's there recording of the zoom call, they seemed like they had answers to all the safety related questions they chose to answer. They claimed that the reason they were afraid of the cloud was because of the dust, that they were raising the rocket by hand, while it was empty. Still, this seems pretty sketchy. Also I'm not sure they get how the meme they posted below is supposed to work. https://www.pythom.space/updates/the-call-of-the-wild-pythom-zoom-event-taped

https://blogs.nasa.gov/lucy/2022/04/21/nasas-lucy-mission-is-go-for-solar-array-deployment-attempt/ The solar array that did not latch after launch will go through with another attempt in about a month

looks like parts of a long march 3 hit India last April https://spacenews.com/india-examining-crashed-space-debris-suspected-to-be-parts-of-chinas-long-march-rocket/

to be fair the B-29s were interred during wartime as the USSR was neutral for most of the pacific war, so they were required to hold on to them for a bit

heres a video of one of their test firings in a "mobile test stand" read: wooden trailer. You can clearly see that large portions of the propellants are unmixed and unburned, with some sort of liquid being sprayed across the ground while a cloud of nitric acid rises into the air

A solid fueled space launch vehicle recently had a test launch, details are somewhat sparse, but they claimed that the test was a success http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20220330000826

looks like the swedes are no longer launching their atmospheric science microsatellite on soyuz, I would expect that countries seeking alternate launch arrangements for smaller spacecraft are going to have a much easier time than the larger ones, given how many people seem to be launching these on various launchers Google translate: Sweden refuses to launch MATS satellite on Russian Soyuz-2.1b rocket. The launch of MATS was planned at the end of 2022 from the Vostochny cosmodrome along with a Russian meteorological satellite. A woman with a cart is easier for a mare (rocket) Any idea what that last sentence is supposed to mean?

One web is now looking for alternative launch providers from the US, India and Japan, but still intends to get launches contracted from Ariane, not sure how long it will take for the various providers to have launch capacity available though https://spacenews.com/with-soyuz-off-the-table-oneweb-back-in-the-mix/

South Korea says "very unlikely" that their launches on Soyuz will go ahead as planned https://spacenews.com/russian-sanctions-throw-south-korean-satellite-missions-into-uncertainty/

liftoff and stage sep https://spaceflightnow.com/2022/03/01/atlas-5-av-095-goes-t-mission-status-center/