Rocket Lab successfully launched an Electron carrying a classified US mission from Māhia Peninsula, New Zealand, at 0630 GMT on 13 July. The Electron was carrying NROL-162: the first of two responsive space missions, also known as “Wise One Looks Ahead”, for the...
A Russian Soyuz 2-1B Fregat-M vehicle successfully launched the Glonass K1-4 navigation satellite from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Northern Russia at 0918 GMT on 7 June. Glonass K1-4 (aka Glonass K16L) is the fourth Glonass-K upgraded Russian navigation spacecraft...
Airbus US Space and Defense has been picked to provide 42 satellite bus platforms to Northrop Grumman for the US Space Development Agency’s (SDA) Tranche 1 Transport Layer (T1TL) constellation. T1TL is a low Earth orbit (LEO) mesh network of small satellites, which...
The United Launch Alliance (ULA) successfully launched an Atlas V 541/RL10C-1/GEM-63 launch vehicle from Cape Canaveral, USA at 2315 GMT on 1 July 2022 on behalf of the United Space Force’s Space Systems Command’s USSF-12 mission. The rocket was carrying...
At 1546 GMT, 27 June, a Chinese Long March-4C (CZ-4C) rocket carried the Gaofen 12-03 (12C) satellite into low Earth orbit (LEO). The mission lifted-off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. The satellite is equipped with a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) payload...
A Kuaizhou-1A small solid rocket launch vehicle was launched from the Jiuquan launch site in the Gobi Desert, Northern China, at 0208 GMT on 22 June, carrying the Tianxing-1 satellite into orbit. It marks a successful return to operations after a second stage launch...
