In the battle for world opinion with respect to the war in Ukraine, most now decry Russia for its initial invasion and for its subsequent behaviour. And satellite imagery has been key to this. NATO is providing everything it can to Ukraine short of actual military...
US Vice President Kamala Harris has announced that the USA will no longer actively test anti-satellite (ASAT) interceptions – at least not with direct ascent missile systems. The announcement, in a speech at the Vandenberg launch base in California, comes after...
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket from Vandenberg, California, USA, at 1313 GMT on 17 April, carrying a secret payload under the mission name NRO L-85 for the US National Reconnaissance Office. The reusable first stage of the Falcon 9 vehicle (B1071 on...
South Korea, through its Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA), confirmed that it had contracted SpaceX to launch the five satellites of its military “425 project” on 11 April. The deal outlines that all five units will be launched by 2025 with...
A Soyuz 2-1B rocket was launched at 1120 GMT on 7 April 2022 from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Northern Russia. It carried the Cosmos 2554 (formally the Lotos S6) spacecraft. which is a part of the Russian Liana programme. This Russian Ministry of Defence satellite is...
The UK government’s Defence Equipment and Support arm has signed a GB£22 million (US$28.8 million) contract on behalf of UK Space Command with the Airbus DS-owned small satellite manufacturer Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) for the construction of a satellite...
