Rocket Lab launched its Electron launch vehicle at 0633 GMT on 15 December 2018 from its Mahia Peninsula launch site in New Zealand. The launch carried 13 cubesat class spacecraft for NASA totalling 83kg by mass.There were launched under its Educational Launch of...
Launching from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, located in Northern China, at 0412 GMT, on 7 December 2018, a SAST (Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology) Long March-2D (CZ-2D) rocket lifted-off to LEO (Low Earth Orbit) for CGWIC (China Great Wall Industry...
London-based satellite operator Inmarsat has made a “booking” with Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) for a launch of one of its satellites on a Japanese H-3 rocket. The lower-cost new generation expendable H-3 (H-III) rocket replaces the H-2A (H-IIA) rocket...
While its reusable operations have, for the most part, gone well to date, every now and again SpaceX suffers a landing failure which makes the clockwork operation wobble. Having got to three uses with a single stage on the multiple satellite Vandenberg launch for...
After a series of delays due to reasons ranging from national holidays to high winds, the Sun-Synch Express mission for Spaceflight Industries was launched by a Space X Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket at 1834 GMT, 3 December 2018. The launch from the western SpaceX launch pad...
The Ariane 5-ECA roared off its launch pad in Kourou, French Guiana at 2037 GMT on 4 December 2018. The launch carried two satellites: GSAT 11 and GEO-KOMPSAT 2A. Installed as the Ariane 5 ECA’s upper passenger, GSAT-11 is an operational telecommunication satellite...
