The NASA DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) experimental asteroid collision mission has been declared a major scientific success. This was after telescopes on Earth ascertained that the orbit of the 160-metre-wide asteroid, Dimorphos, had been significantly...
At 2343 GMT on 8 October, China launched a Long March 2D (CZ-2D) rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center to LEO. The payload carried was the ASO-S (Advanced Space-borne Solar Observatory) solar observation mission which is intended to monitor the sun 24 hours...
A Chinese Long March 11H (CZ-11H) mainly solid rocket launch vehicle reportedly launched a pair of Centispace commercial navigation satellites from the DeBo-3 barge at 1310 GMT on 7 October 2022. The satellites, Centispace-1 S5 and S6, with a mass of approximately...
There are many space conferences every year, some specialising in military space hardware and applications, some aimed squarely at the commercial market, but when it comes to international space flight – and especially space agencies – there is perhaps only one...
China launched to space rockets on 26 September 2022. The first up was the Long March 2D/2 (CZ-2D/2) Y68 launch of three Yaogan-36 Group 1 satellites which were launched at 1338 GMT from the Xichang launch site. Yaogan 36-01-A and B payloads were developed by CASC,...
The Chinese successfully launched a Kuaizhou 1A vehicle from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre, Shanxi Province, China at 2255 GMT on 24 September 2022. The vehicle was carrying Shiyan 14 & 15, two classified Chinese satellites.
