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China announces planned new optical and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite constellation called 36 Tiangang
According to Space News (Andrew Jones) a new planned Chinese optical and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Earth observation satellite constellation dubbed 36 Tiangan has been announced which is designed to help disaster prevention, early warning and natural resource...
Russian Proton launches two Express AMU comsats but undershoots them…as Chinese Long March 3B launches Tianlan data relay sat
Russia launched a Proton M/Briz M vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan at 1207 GMT on 13 December, but not everything went to plan. The launch vehicle was carrying the Express AMU-3 (Ekspress-AMU 3) and Express AMU-7 (Ekspress-AMU 7)...
NanoAvionics selected to provide CubeSat platforms for Chilean and American missions
A Chilean start-up, Lemu, has ordered a 6U CubeSat from NanoAvionics which will become the country's first private satellite. The satellite, to be called Lemu Nge, is set to host a hyperspectral imager built by South African company, Simera, according to the 2...
Blue Origin launches six more “astronauts” including daughter of first US suborbital spaceman Alan B. Shepard
After a previous launch attempt on 9 December was called off due to high winds, Blue Origin managed to launch the third of its New Shepard human-carrying suborbital flights. The launch was officially named NS-19 but also dubbed Glen Derries in the technology...
Long March 4B launches Shi Jian 6-05 pair of satellites – thought to be for electronic intelligence
China successfully launched a Long March 4B vehicle at 0011 GMT on 10 December 2021 from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in China. The launch vehicle was carrying the Shi Jian 6-05A and 6-05B satellites. While the satellites were announced as officially being used...
GHGSat contracts with SpaceX to launch its next three sats on rideshare mission
Canadian company GHGSat, a newspace company pioneering satellite-based greenhouse gas emission monitoring, has contracted with SpaceX for the launch of its next three satellites. The satellites are being built by the University of Toronto's Space Flight Laboratory and...
Andesat orders small GEO sat from Astranis for Peru
Astranis has won another contract for its upcoming MicroGEO small geostationary satellite platform. The order from Peruvian company Andesat – part of Grupo Andesat based in Chile – is its first for a GEO sat. Announced on 7 December, the order is reportedly worth...
Rocket Lab launches another two BlackSky satellites for its final 2021 mission
Rocket Lab has completed the second of three contracted missions for Earth imaging company BlackSky on 9 December. The launch saw the Electron rocket carrying a pair of BlackSky satellites lift-off from its launch site on the North Island, New Zealand, at 0002 GMT....
NASA IXPE telescope mission is finally launched by a Falcon 9
A Falcon 9v1.2 Block 5 rocket successfully launched the IXPE - Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer mission for NASA on 8 December 2021. The launch took place at 0600 GMT from the former Space Shuttle Pad 39A in Cape Canaveral. The reusable first stage B1061 (on its...
Private Chinese firm completes second launch of its Ceres-1 small rocket
Launching from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China, the second flight of the Ceres-1 (Gushenxing-1) rocket has placed five payloads into LEO. Lifting off at at 0412 GMT, 7 December the rocket carried the satellites to a near 500 km, sun-synchronous orbit....
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