by David Todd | Nov 21, 2012 | China, commercial launch services, Satellites
The China Great Wall Industry Corp (CGWIC) has been awarded a turnkey construction and launch contract for the Democratic Republic of Congo’s first satellite Congosat 1. Congosat 1 will be a communications satellite operating in Geostationary...
by David Todd | Nov 19, 2012 | China, Seradata News, Technology
China launched the Huanjing 1C (HJ 1C), Xinyan 1 (XY 1) and Fengniao 1 A/B (FN 1A/B) satellites on a Long March 2C launch vehicle at 2253 GMT on 18 November from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre in China. The HJ 1C satellite carries a S band (3.13 GHz) synthetic...
by David Todd | Oct 26, 2012 | China, Satellites, Seradata News, Technology
The Chinese navigation satellite, Beidou 2-G6 (Compass G6), was launched into a Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO) on its way to its Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) position by a Long March 3C rocket flying out of the Xichang launch site. The satellite...
by David Todd | Sep 25, 2012 | China, Satellites, Seradata News
Reports on http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/ state that work on the third generation of the Beidou (Compass) navigation system has started in China. The space segment of the system will consist of a constellation of 5 Beidou-G satellites in geostationary...
by David Todd | Sep 19, 2012 | China, Satellites, Seradata News
China successfully launched the Beidou 2C-M2 and Beidou 2C-M5 satellites on a Long March 3B vehicle from the Xichang launch centre at 1910 GMT on 19 September. The two satellites will fly in a medium Earth orbit to provide more capability...
by David Todd | Aug 22, 2012 | Apollo, China, Constellation, exploration, JAXA, NASA, Seradata News, SLS, Technology
Two years ago, the space team at the Ascend consultancy (now part of Flightglobal) did an analysis on which nation was likely to be the first to return men to the moon. In the analysis notional odds were assigned to each which country as a measure of our estimation...
