A contract was signed on 22 March 2018 between Pakistan’s Space & Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) and China Great Wall Industry Corporation (CGWIC) for the joint-development and launch of the PakSat Multi-Mission-1 (PakSat-MM1) satellite. Both...
At 1828 GMT, 8 May, a Chinese Long March 4B (CZ-4B) rocket lifted off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, Northern China, carrying the GAOFEN 5 remote-sensing satellite to a LEO sun-synchronous orbit. The GAOFEN series are part of a civilian, high-resolution,...
A Long March 3B-G2 (CZ-3B-G2) launch vehicle lifted off from the Xichang launch site in China at 1606 GMT on 3 March 2018. Aboard was a 5,250kg communcations satellite APSTAR 6C which was being launched under a construction and delivery to orbit contract for the Hong...
China has launched four imaging satellites OHS-2A, -2B, -2C, and -2D and one video satellite OVS-2A into low Earth orbit (LEO) for Zhuhai Orbital Control Engineering Ltd at 0442 GMT on 26 April 2018. The Long March 11 (CZ-11) launch vehicle was launched from the...
After US Congress decided to cancel the human-rating of the Delta IV upper-stage-derived ICPS (Interim Cryogenic Propulsion System) it looked as though the SLS Block 1 rocket (itself delayed until 2020) would only ever fly once on an unmanned flight called EM-1...
The Chinese authorities have released the cause of the failure of the Long March 5 flight at 1123 GMT on 2 July 2017, which crashed in the ocean 346 seconds after lift-off, destroying the experimental high throughput satellite Shi Jian 18. During the flight, a plume...
