Lifting off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China, at 0243 GMT, 9 October, a CALT Long March 2C rocket carried two YAOGAN 32-01 units into LEO. This launch saw the first usage of a new “Yuanzheng-1S” (Y-1S) upper stage, which has reportedly...
The launch of the CENTISPACE 1-S1 small satellite took place at 0413 GMT, 29 September, 2018, from the Jiuguan Satellite Launch Center in Northern China, utilising the Kuaizhou 1A solid-launch vehicle. This marks the second time this new launch vehicle has placed a...
A Chinese Long March 3B/YZ-1 successfully launched the BEIDOU-3 M13 and BEIDOU-3 M14 satellites into Medium Earth Orbit at 1407 GMT on 19 September from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre, Sichuan Province, China. The one metric ton satellites were built by the SECM...
While the USA frets about the activities of certain Russian inspection satellites, and France frets about the activities of certain Russian eavesdropping satellites another satellite in orbit has caused raised eyebrows amongst orbital analysts. And this one is...
The small satellite manufacturing subsidiary of Airbus Defence and Space, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL), celebrated the successful launch of two satellites, NovaSAR-1, a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite able to image the earth at night or through...
China launched the HAIYANG 1C satellite at 0315 GMT on 7 September on a Long March 2C launch vehicle from Taiyuan Satellite Launching Centre in China. The satellite will be used to monitor oceanic pollution, resource investigation, construction of bayou and ports and...
