Telesat’s Lightspeed constellation is fully financed after the Canadian company awarded MDA with a contract to build 198 satellites; in the process eschewing Thales Alenia Space and saving the satellite operator a cool US$2 billion. The new contract with MDA, a...
Two recent Chinese launches have been made from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center. The first launch was a large Long March 3B/E (CZ-B/E) rocket which launched at 1726 GMT on 12 August 2023. It put the Ludi-Tance-4 (01) radar satellite into a Geosynchronous Transfer...
A Ceres-1 (Gushenxing-1) rocket built by private Chinese company Galactic Energy successfully launched from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China at 0404 GMT on 10 August. The mission reportedly carried seven satellites into LEO however, despite there being a...
A Soyuz 2-1b/Fregat M rocket sent Russia’s Luna 25 lander, also known as the Luna-Glob, into orbit from Vostochny cosmodrome in far eastern Russia, at 2310 GMT on 10 August. The lander and the Fregat M stage were placed into an initial parking orbit of 280 x 267 km at...
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA at 0517 GMT on 11 August 2023. The launch vehicle was carrying Starlink Group 6-9 of 22 V2-Mini Starlink satellites for the Starlink second generation constellation. The reusable...
At 2253 GMT on 8 August a Long March 2C (CZ-2C) rocket successfully carried the HJ-2F satellite into sun-synchronous LEO. The mission took place from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, Northern China. The satellite Huanjing Jianzai 2F is a SAR satellite reportedly...
