by David Todd | Mar 19, 2013 | China, NASA, On a Lighter Note
Bo Jiang, a Chinese national and space imaging expert who was working (with permission) as a contractor for National Institute of Aerospace (NIA) at NASA’s Langley space centre, was arrested at Dulles International Airport in Washington D.C. on 16 March as he...
by David Todd | Dec 19, 2012 | China, Satellites, Seradata News
In China’s last scheduled launch of 2012 a Long March 2D successfully placed the Turkish Gokturk 2 satellite in orbit. The launch took place from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre at 1612 GMT on 18 December. The satellite has a dual Military and Civil earth...
by David Todd | Dec 17, 2012 | China, exploration, Science
The Chinese Chang’e 2 spacecraft has been used in a follow-up mission to take close up images of the near Earth object asteroid, Toutalis (4179) at an altitude of only 3.2km. The flyby took place at 0830 GMT on 13 December 2012. Chang’e 2 was originally...
by David Todd | Dec 12, 2012 | China, International Space Station, Russia, space station
After the successful flights of an Atlas V 501 carrying the US Air Force X-37B/OTV 1 (FLIGHT 2) minispaceplane and of the Taepodong-3 (Uhna-3) carrying the North Korea’s Kwangmyongsong 3-2 spacecraft there are just three launches left. ...
by David Todd | Nov 28, 2012 | China, commercial launch services, Satellites, Seradata News
The communications satellite, Chinasat 12 has been launched from a Long March 3B/E launch vehicle flying out of the Xichang launch site at 1013 GMT on 27 November 2012. The spacecraft was formerly known as Apstar 7B as it was originally ordered from Thales...
by David Todd | Nov 26, 2012 | China, Satellites
A Chinese Yaogan 16 satelltie and two sub-satellites which are assessed to be a constellation of three satellites conducting an Electronic Intelligence mission with a possible Naval Ocean Surveillance capability, were launched via a Long March...
