2016 in spaceflight (English Wikipedia)

Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "2016 in spaceflight" in English language version.

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38north.org

"Flashback to the Past: North Korea's "New" Extended-Range Scud" (PDF). 38 North. 8 November 2016. Retrieved 17 January 2025.

amsat-uk.org

"Russian Cosmonauts Deploy Satellites". AMSAT-UK. 17 August 2017. Retrieved 20 April 2018.

breakingdefense.com

Clark, Colin (18 April 2018). "China Satellite SJ-17, Friendly Wanderer?". Breaking Defense. Retrieved 1 April 2021.

cbc.ca

"North Korea plans satellite launch this month - World - CBC News". Cbc.ca. 2 February 2016. Retrieved 21 March 2017.

cbsnews.com

William Harwood (20 October 2016). "ESA Mars lander Schiaparelli failed in "soft landing" but data sent back may be worth it". CBS News. Retrieved 21 March 2017.

csis.org

aerospace.csis.org

Roberts, Thomas G. (31 March 2021). "Unusual Behavior in GEO: SJ-17". Center for Strategic and International Studies. Retrieved 1 April 2021.

eoportal.org

directory.eoportal.org

"TanSat (Chinese Carbon Dioxide Observation Satellite Mission)". eoPortal.org. Retrieved 18 December 2016.

esa.int

"Mission ends for Copernicus Sentinel-1B satellite". ESA. 3 August 2022. Retrieved 27 January 2025.

blogs.esa.int

"Skimming Phobos | Mars Express". Blogs.esa.int. 13 January 2016. Retrieved 21 March 2017.

gaussteam.com

"TuPOD successfully deployed its two onboard TubeSats". GAUSS Srl. 20 January 2017. Retrieved 28 January 2017.

jaxa.jp

global.jaxa.jp

"Operation Plan of X-ray Astronomy Satellite ASTRO-H (Hitomi)". JAXA Press Release. JAXA. 28 April 2016. Archived from the original on 16 May 2021. Retrieved 21 March 2017.
"About Epsilon Launch Vehicle". JAXA. Retrieved 14 August 2021.
"Supplemental Handout on the Operation Plan of the X-ray Astronomy Satellite ASTRO-H (Hitomi)" (PDF). JAXA Press Release. JAXA. 28 April 2016. Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 May 2021. Retrieved 16 May 2021.

iss.jaxa.jp

"Successful deployment of six CubeSats delivered by KOUNOTORI6". JAXA. 16 January 2017. Retrieved 17 January 2017.

jaxa.jp

観測ロケットS-310-44号機打上げ結果について (in Japanese). JAXA. 15 January 2016. Retrieved 15 January 2015.

knmi.nl

scatterometer.knmi.nl

"OSI SAF ScatSat-1 OSCAT Wind Products". KNMI. 2021. Retrieved 25 June 2022.

n2yo.com

"KMS-4". N2YO.com. 30 June 2023. Retrieved 19 August 2023.
"RESURS P3". N2YO.com. 17 October 2023. Retrieved 20 October 2023.
"DIWATA-1". N2YO.com. Retrieved 10 November 2021.
"FLOCK 2EP 7". N2YO.com. 3 October 2017. Retrieved 20 October 2023.
"FLOCK 2EP 15". N2YO.com. 10 November 2018. Retrieved 20 October 2023.
"LEMUR 2 NATE". N2YO.com. 27 February 2017. Retrieved 20 October 2023.
"LEMUR 2 KANE". N2YO.com. 7 April 2017. Retrieved 20 October 2023.
"TOMSK-TPU 120". N2YO.com. 20 October 2019. Retrieved 20 October 2023.
"AAUSAT-4". N2YO.com. 8 September 2023. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
"E-ST@R-II". N2YO.com. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
"OUFTI-1". N2YO.com. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
"MVL 300". N2YO.com. 16 December 2023. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
"AIST 2D". N2YO.com. Retrieved 27 January 2025.
"SAMSAT 218D". N2YO.com. 4 March 2022. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
"Launches of June 2016". N2YO.com. Retrieved 30 March 2023.
"LX-1". N2YO.com. 19 August 2016. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
"3CAT-2". N2YO.com. 18 December 2023. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
"BANXING-2". N2YO.com. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
"CANX-7". N2YO.com. 21 April 2022. Retrieved 26 April 2022.
"EGG". N2YO.com. Retrieved 19 August 2019.
"TUPOD". N2YO.com. Retrieved 19 August 2019.
"AOBA-VELOX 3". N2YO.com. Retrieved 19 August 2019.
"STARS-C". N2YO.com. Retrieved 19 August 2019.
"FREEDOM". N2YO.com. Retrieved 19 August 2019.
"WASEDA-SAT3". N2YO.com. Retrieved 19 August 2019.
"OSNSAT". N2YO.com. Retrieved 19 August 2019.
"TANCREDO 1". N2YO.com. Retrieved 19 August 2019.
"TECHEDSAT 5". N2YO.com. Retrieved 19 August 2019.
"LEMUR 2 TRUTNA". N2YO.com. Retrieved 19 August 2019.
"LEMUR 2 REDFERN-GOES". N2YO.com. Retrieved 19 August 2019.
"BY70-1". N2YO.com. Retrieved 21 June 2020.

nagoya-u.ac.jp

frontier.phys.nagoya-u.ac.jp

"ChubuSat Instrument Development Project / About ChubuSat-3 Satellite". Nagoya University. 13 April 2016. Archived from the original on 18 March 2016. Retrieved 13 April 2016.

nasa.gov

Koehler, Keith (1 March 2016). "MUSIC Successfully Launched from NASA Wallops". NASA.
Agle, D. C.; Brown, Dwayne; Cantillo, Laurie (27 August 2016). "NASA's Juno Successfully Completes Jupiter Flyby". NASA. Retrieved 1 October 2016.
"NASA's Juno Mission to Remain in Current Orbit at Jupiter | NASA". Nasa.gov. 4 July 2016. Retrieved 21 March 2017.
"NASA TV to Air U.S. Spacewalk, Briefing | NASA". Nasa.gov. 22 August 2016. Retrieved 21 March 2017.

blogs.nasa.gov

Garcia, Mark (15 January 2016). "Spacewalk Ends Early After Water Detected in Helmet | Space Station". Blogs.nasa.gov. Archived from the original on 8 February 2016. Retrieved 21 March 2017.
Garcia, Mark (3 February 2016). "Second Spacewalk of Year Complete | Space Station". Blogs.nasa.gov. Archived from the original on 19 October 2019. Retrieved 21 March 2017.
"Spacewalk Concludes After Commercial Crew Port Installation". NASA. 19 August 2016. Archived from the original on 8 August 2019. Retrieved 22 August 2016.

saturn.jpl.nasa.gov

"Cassini Solstice Mission: Saturn Tour Dates: 2016". saturn.jpl.nasa.gov. Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Archived from the original on 7 September 2015. Retrieved 6 September 2015.

nasaspaceflight.com

Graham, William (30 March 2017). "SpaceX conducts historic Falcon 9 re-flight with SES-10 – Lands booster again". NASASpaceFlight.com. Retrieved 9 July 2017.
Bergin, Chris (25 April 2017). "SpaceX Static Fire spy sat rocket and prepare to test Falcon Heavy core". NASASpaceFlight.com. Retrieved 3 May 2017.
Barbosa, Rui C. (29 May 2016). "Chinese Long March 4B lofts satellites for Ziyuan-3 and Aleph-1 programs". NASASpaceflight.com.
Graham, William (13 September 2016). "Israel launches Ofek spy satellite – officials confirm malfunctions". nasaspaceflight.com. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
Barbosa, Rui C. (9 November 2016). "Second launch for Long March 11 – lofts five satellites". NASASpaceFlight. Retrieved 21 June 2020.

newindianexpress.com

"Maiden Test of Undersea K-4 Missile From Arihant Submarine". www.newindianexpress.com. 9 April 2016.

newspapers.com

"Japan abandons costly X-ray satellite lost in space". Pacific Daily News. Tokyo. Associated Press. 3 May 2016. p. A9. Archived from the original on 16 May 2021. Retrieved 16 May 2021 – via Newspapers.com.

nti.org

"The CNS North Korea Missile Test Database". Nuclear Threat Initiative. Retrieved 17 January 2025.

nytimes.com

Chang, Kenneth (19 October 2016). "ExoMars Mission to Join Crowd of Spacecraft at Mars". The New York Times. Retrieved 22 June 2018.
Chang, Kenneth (14 March 2016). "Mars Mission Blasts Off From Kazakhstan". The New York Times. Retrieved 14 March 2016.

people.cn

en.people.cn

Huang, Jin (8 March 2016). "Why will Shenzhou-11 carry only two astronauts to space?". People's Daily Online. Retrieved 10 March 2016.

planetary.org

Lakdawalla, Emily (21 October 2016). "Likely Schiaparelli crash site imaged by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter". Planetary Society Articles. The Planetary Society. Archived from the original on 16 May 2021. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
Lakdawalla, Emily (9 June 2016). "What to expect from JunoCam at Jupiter". Planetary.org. Retrieved 1 October 2016.
"Juno to delay planned burn | The Planetary Society". Planetary.org. Retrieved 21 March 2017.

popsci.com

Jeffrey Lin; P.W. Singer; John Costello (3 March 2016). "China's Quantum Satellite Could Change Cryptography Forever". Popular Science. Retrieved 12 March 2016.

ria.ru

"Новейший "Глонасс-К" сменит вышедший из строя аппарат, рассказал источник" [Newest Glonass-K to replace failed satellite, source says]. RIA Novosti (in Russian). 26 December 2020. Retrieved 27 December 2020.

ses.com

Payer, Markus (30 August 2016). "Leading satellite operator will be world's first company to launch a geostationary satellite on a reusable rocket in Q4 2016" (Press release). SES S.A. Archived from the original on 30 August 2016. Retrieved 30 August 2016.

sina.com.cn

news.sina.com.cn

"长征七号首飞成功携带多用途飞船缩比返回舱". Sina.com (in Chinese). 25 June 2016. Retrieved 25 June 2016.

skyrocket.de

space.skyrocket.de

Krebs, Gunter. "NROL launches". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved 8 December 2016.
Krebs, Gunter. "XPNAV 1". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved 1 November 2016.
Krebs, Gunter. "Xiaoxiang 1". Gunter's Space Page. Archived from the original on 1 November 2016. Retrieved 1 November 2016.

space.com

Gannon, Megan (30 September 2016). "Goodbye, Rosetta! Spacecraft Crash-Lands on Comet in Epic Mission Finale". Space.com. Retrieved 1 October 2016.
Malik, Tariq (1 September 2016). "Launchpad Explosion Destroys SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket, Satellite in Florida". Space.com. Retrieved 1 September 2016.

spaceflight101.com

"First Commercial Crew Docking Port established aboard ISS in challenging Spacewalk". Spaceflight101. 19 August 2016.
"New Orbital Data & Observations Dim Hopes for Japanese Hitomi Spacecraft". Spaceflight101. 2 April 2016. Retrieved 5 April 2016.

spaceflightinsider.com

Godwin, Curt (1 September 2016). "SpaceX set to launch heaviest payload to date as Tropical Storm Hermine looms". SpaceFlight Insider. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
"Russian Ullage rocket engine explodes in space". Spaceflight Insider. 4 June 2016. Retrieved 16 June 2016.

spaceflightnow.com

Clark, Steven (17 May 2016). "Japanese orbiter officially begins science mission at Venus". Spaceflight Now.
Clark, Stephen (2 July 2016). "Scientists to land, and switch off, Rosetta comet probe in September". Spaceflight Now. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
Justin Ray. "Navy satellite claws its way to usable orbit after main engine failure – Spaceflight Now". Spaceflightnow.com. Retrieved 21 March 2017.
"NROL-61 satellite launched Thursday spotted in space by sky-watchers". Spaceflight Now. 30 July 2016.
Stephen Clark. "Intelsat satellite in service after overcoming engine trouble – Spaceflight Now". Spaceflightnow.com. Retrieved 21 March 2017.
Clark, Stephen (18 April 2016). "Attitude control failures led to break-up of Japanese astronomy satellite". Spaceflight Now. Pole Star Publications Ltd. Archived from the original on 16 May 2021. Retrieved 21 April 2016.

spacenews.com

Erwin, Sandra (6 November 2023). "LeoLabs data shows on-orbit maneuvers by Russian satellites". SpaceNews. Retrieved 3 December 2023.
Jones, Andrew (19 July 2019). "China's Tiangong-2 space lab reenters over South Pacific". SpaceNews. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
"DigitalGlobe loses WorldView-4 satellite to gyro failure". SpaceNews. 7 January 2019. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
Jeff Foust (30 December 2016). "Chinese satellites raising orbits after launch anomaly". SpaceNews.com. Retrieved 21 March 2017.
Berger, Brian (23 January 2016). "Launch. Land. Repeat: Blue Origin posts video of New Shepard's Friday flight". Space News.
Foust, Jeff (2 April 2016). "Blue Origin flies New Shepard on suborbital test flight". Space News.
Gruss, Mike (29 March 2016). "U.S. Air Force: No evidence malfunctioning Japanese satellite was hit by debris". Space News. Retrieved 5 April 2016.

techcrunch.com

Calandrelli, Emily; Escher, Anna (16 December 2016). "The top 15 events that happened in space in 2016". TechCrunch. Retrieved 16 December 2016.

tsukuba.ac.jp

yui.kz.tsukuba.ac.jp

ITF-2大気圏再突入、および運用終了のお知らせ / Re-entry of ITF-2 and the operation was ended (in Japanese). Yui Project, University of Tsukuba. 6 January 2019. Archived from the original on 6 January 2019. Retrieved 6 January 2019.

tvrain.ru

"Путин разрешил перенести первый запуск с "Восточного"" [Putin allowed to postpone the first launch from the "Eastern"]. Tvrain.ru (in Russian). Телеканал Дождь. 14 October 2015. Retrieved 22 June 2018.

twitter.com

"SpaceX on Twitter: "After further data review, stage landed softly but leg 3 didn't lockout. Was within 1.3 meters of droneship center"". Twitter. Retrieved 21 March 2017.
"Dianne VanBeber on Twitter: "Today at 4:00 Intelsat confirmed that Intelsat 29e is a total loss. We are still actively restoring customer services to Intelsat and third party capacity; implications not yet settled. Financial discussion in our 1Q (2019) earnings call"". Twitter. 18 April 2019. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
"NanoRacks on Twitter: "Successful #cubesat deployment early this morning at 10:25:01 GMT of two @SpireGlobal #Lemurs from the #NRCSD on @Space_Station"". Twitter. NanoRacks. 6 March 2017. Retrieved 27 March 2017.
"NanoRacks on Twitter: "Another successful deployment! Two more @SpireGlobal #Lemurs deployed at 15:05:00 GMT from the NanoRacks CubeSat Deployer on #ISS"". Twitter. NanoRacks. 7 March 2017. Retrieved 27 March 2017.
"NanoRacks on Twitter: "Deployment cycle complete! @NASAAmes #TechEdSat5 deployed from @Space_Station @ 18:20:00 GMT. Thanks to all who made this mission a success!"". Twitter. NanoRacks. 7 March 2017. Retrieved 27 March 2017.

ulalaunch.com

"Atlas V OA-6 Anomaly Status". United Launch Alliance. 31 March 2016. Retrieved 31 March 2016.

web.archive.org

Payer, Markus (30 August 2016). "Leading satellite operator will be world's first company to launch a geostationary satellite on a reusable rocket in Q4 2016" (Press release). SES S.A. Archived from the original on 30 August 2016. Retrieved 30 August 2016.
"Operation Plan of X-ray Astronomy Satellite ASTRO-H (Hitomi)". JAXA Press Release. JAXA. 28 April 2016. Archived from the original on 16 May 2021. Retrieved 21 March 2017.
"Japan abandons costly X-ray satellite lost in space". Pacific Daily News. Tokyo. Associated Press. 3 May 2016. p. A9. Archived from the original on 16 May 2021. Retrieved 16 May 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
Krebs, Gunter. "Xiaoxiang 1". Gunter's Space Page. Archived from the original on 1 November 2016. Retrieved 1 November 2016.
ITF-2大気圏再突入、および運用終了のお知らせ / Re-entry of ITF-2 and the operation was ended (in Japanese). Yui Project, University of Tsukuba. 6 January 2019. Archived from the original on 6 January 2019. Retrieved 6 January 2019.
"Cassini Solstice Mission: Saturn Tour Dates: 2016". saturn.jpl.nasa.gov. Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Archived from the original on 7 September 2015. Retrieved 6 September 2015.
Lakdawalla, Emily (21 October 2016). "Likely Schiaparelli crash site imaged by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter". Planetary Society Articles. The Planetary Society. Archived from the original on 16 May 2021. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
Garcia, Mark (15 January 2016). "Spacewalk Ends Early After Water Detected in Helmet | Space Station". Blogs.nasa.gov. Archived from the original on 8 February 2016. Retrieved 21 March 2017.
Garcia, Mark (3 February 2016). "Second Spacewalk of Year Complete | Space Station". Blogs.nasa.gov. Archived from the original on 19 October 2019. Retrieved 21 March 2017.
"Spacewalk Concludes After Commercial Crew Port Installation". NASA. 19 August 2016. Archived from the original on 8 August 2019. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
"Supplemental Handout on the Operation Plan of the X-ray Astronomy Satellite ASTRO-H (Hitomi)" (PDF). JAXA Press Release. JAXA. 28 April 2016. Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 May 2021. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
Clark, Stephen (18 April 2016). "Attitude control failures led to break-up of Japanese astronomy satellite". Spaceflight Now. Pole Star Publications Ltd. Archived from the original on 16 May 2021. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
"ChubuSat Instrument Development Project / About ChubuSat-3 Satellite". Nagoya University. 13 April 2016. Archived from the original on 18 March 2016. Retrieved 13 April 2016.

x.com

@planet4589 (1 December 2021). "The Worldview-4 commercial imaging satellite reentered over New Zealand at about 0520 UTC Nov 30. It was launched in 2016 but its imager failed in early 2019" (Tweet). Retrieved 2 December 2021 – via Twitter.
@JSpOC (1 April 2016). "10 pieces from Astro-H break-up is posted on @SpaceTrackOrg. 41337 was amended to match the largest piece. The former 41337 is now 41442" (Tweet). Retrieved 13 April 2016 – via Twitter.
@JSpOC (2 June 2016). "Breakup Notification: SL-12 R/B (#33473) @ 0920-0930z on 1Jun16. 20+ associated pieces. No indication of collision. @SpaceTrackOrg" (Tweet). Retrieved 16 June 2016 – via Twitter.