by David Todd | Jul 27, 2015 | China, Satellites, Seradata News
The maiden launch of the Long March 3B/YZ-1 (CZ-3B/YZ-1) version of the venerable Chinese launch launch vehicle, flying from the Xichang launch site in China, successfully launched two Beidou-3 class navigation satellites (Beidou-3 M-1S and Beidouo-3 M-2S) on their...
by David Todd | Jul 11, 2015 | China, Launches, Satellites
On 10 July 2015 three high resolution Earth Observation satellites built by Airbus subsidiary Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) that will form the DMC3/TripleSat Constellation were placed into 651km sun-synchronous Low Earth Orbit by a PSLV-XL launch vehicle...
by David Todd | Jun 29, 2015 | China, Military space
A Long March 4B (CZ-4B) rocket was launched from China Taiyuan launch site at 0622 GMT on 26 June 2015. Aboard was a high resolution imaging spacecraft called Gaofen-8 which was being launched into a near polar Sun-synchronous orbit as part of the CHEOS (China High...
by David Todd | Jun 13, 2015 | China, History, Technology
In the same month that Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and UK Prime Minister David Cameron attended the celebration of the 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta, a bedrock of the democratic values and freedoms we know today, there was further evidence of...
by David Todd | Mar 18, 2015 | China, commercial launch services, Military space, Satellites
US Government officials from the US Commerce Department, Directorate of Trade Controls and US Defense Security Administration were at pains to communicate the new “industry friendly” position on ITAR export regulations which became effective as of 10...
by David Todd | Jan 29, 2015 | China, NASA, Russia
In a further indication that Russia seems intent on going back to a Soviet-style command structure, the Russian Government has approved the merger of the Russian Space Agency, Roscosmos, with mega-corporation United Rocket and Space Corp (URSC). Originally, it had...
