by David Todd | Mar 27, 2020 | Launches, Military space, Seradata News
The newly inaugurated US Space Force had its first new satellite launched on 26 March. The AEHF 6 was launched at 2018 GMT from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA, on a United Launch Alliance (ULA)-operated Atlas V in its 551 configuration. The AEHF 6 satellite will be used... 
by David Todd | Mar 24, 2020 | China, Launches, Military space, Satellites
China successfully launched three Yaogan satellites, Yaogan 30-6-1, -2, and -3, at 0343 GMT on 24 March using a Long March 2C flying from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in China. These Yaogan satellites are officially civilian in nature but are actually expected... 
by David Todd | Mar 17, 2020 | Military space, Russia, Satellites
Russia successfully launched a navigation satellite codenamed Cosmos 2545 as part of its Glonass navigation system at 1828 GMT on 16 March into Medium Earth Orbit on a Soyuz 2-1B/Fregat M launch vehicle. The launch took place from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Northern... 
by David Todd | Mar 10, 2020 | China, Launches, Military space, Satellites
A Long March 3B/G3 (CZ-3B/G3) rocket successfully lifted off from its launch pad at the Xichang launch site in China at 1155 GMT on 10 March 2020. Aboard was a Beidou navigation satellite for the constellation that its the Chinese equivalent of GPS. The Beidou-3 G2Q... 
by Philip Hylands | Feb 20, 2020 | Launches, Military space, Russia, Satellites, Soyuz
Russia successfully launched a Soyuz 2-1A Fregat M vehicle carrying the Meridian M No 19 L (Meridian M 9) satellite into a high arcing Molniya orbit at 0824 GMT on 20 February from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Northern Russia. Note that the third stage actually... 
by David Todd | Feb 10, 2020 | JAXA, Military space, Seradata News
Japan successfully launched the IGS Optical 7A reconnaissance satellite on a H-IIA 202 (H2A 202) launch vehicle from Tanegashima Space Centre at 0134 GMT on 9 February. The launch had been previously delayed from 27 January due to Nitrogen gas leak in the ground...
