At circa 0500 GMT on 25 July, the Chinese commercial launch start-up firm iSpace successfully launched two cubesat-class spacecraft into a 300 km low Earth orbit from the Jiuquan launch site on its Hyperbola 1 (Shian Quxian) rocket – plus some payloads attached...
At 1809 GMT a Long March 3B-G3 (Corrected from G2 variant) sent the Beidou-3 IGSO-2 (aka Beidou DW46) into initial transfer orbit of 35818 x 194 km at 28.6 degrees inclination from the Xichang launch site in China. The navigation satellite is expected to be moved to...
A Long March 11 (CZ-11) rocket was launched from a barge stationed in the Yellow Sea at 0406 GMT on 5 June. On board were seven satellites, including the Jilin-1 03A Earth observation satellite with an optical resolution of 1.13 m, which were launched into 543 x 528...
The Long March 4C launch of the Chinese Yaogan 33 satellite has ended in failure. The lift-off was at 2249 GMT on 22 May 2019 from the Taiyuan launch centre in China. Xinhua, the Chinese news agency, has reported that the launch failure occurred to the third stage,...
China has launched Beidou DW45 (aka Beidou 2-G8), its 45th satellite of its Beidou navigation satellite constellation. The launch took place from the Xichang launch site and used a Long March-3C/G2 rocket. The rocket lifted-off at 1548 GMT on 17 May 2019. The...
While the UK Prime Minister Theresa May might be at risk of being imminently fired herself – not least over her determined self-righteousness over her Brexit plan (Update on 28 May 2019: Prime Minister May has now given in her notice to quit and will leave...
