With only about a month to go to the US Presidential Election on 3 November, we assess President Donald J. Trump’s successes and failures. While he has made serious – sometimes disastrous – errors, Trump’s opponents and detractors may not like it, but he was not wrong...
China’s Long March 4B (CZ-4B) rocket launched a pair of Huanging satellites, HJ-2A, and HJ-2B, from the Taiyuan launch site in China. Life off was at 0323 GMT on 27 September 2020. Both spacecraft were put into near polar sun-synchronous orbits above 600 km. ...
China has launched an ocean study satellite Hai Yang 2C (HY-2C) marine remote sensing satellite to a Sun-synchronous near polar low Earth orbit, using a Long March 4B (CZ-4B) rocket. The launch took place from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre on 21 September 2020...
China conducted a second sea-based launch at 0123 GMT on 15 September. The mission utilised the De Bo 3 converted rescue and salvage ship as a launch platform in the Yellow Sea. Using a four-stage, solid, Long March 11 (CZ-11H) rocket, the launch carried nine...
There were two launch failures from different parts of the world in one day: the US Astra Rocket 3 and China’s Kuaizhou-1A. Astra Space attempted the first orbital flight of its upcoming Astra Rocket 3 small launch vehicle on 12 September. Lifting off from the Pacific...
China successfully launched the Gaofen 11-02 satellite at 0557 GMT on 7 September on a Long March 4B (CZ-4B) from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center. Gaofen 11-02 is planned to provide remote sensing services for the civil market. During the launch the first...
