The Small SAR Technology Experimental Payload (S-STEP), a 100 kg Synthetic Aperture Radar satellite owned by Hanwha Systems, was launched into a 650 km Sun-synchronous orbit by the maiden flight of South Korea’s new solid rocket called TLV (Test Launch Vehicle). TLV...
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 from Vandenberg, USA at 1819 GMT on 01 December 2023. The vehicle was carrying Korea 425 Project EO/IR Sat for South Korea. There were 25 spacecraft on the flight in all. There were a total of 25 spacecraft on board this...
A Soyuz 2-1b launch vehicle was successfully launched from Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia at 2058 GMT on 25 November 2023. It carried Cosmos 2572, an electro-optical reconnaissance satellite. The spacecraft was put into a low 318 x 302 km sun-synchronous orbit inclined...
David Todd, Seradata’s Head of Space Content, reports on the UK Space Conference, a biennial event held in the UK since 2007. This year’s venue for the three-day event was the International Convention Centre in Belfast, Northern Ireland. You can always tell how...
A North Korean Chollima-1 rocket has reportedly placed an optical reconnaissance satellite into LEO after being launched at 1342 GMT on 21 November. The mission lifted off from the Sohae Satellite Launching Ground, in the north-west of the Korean peninsula, and was...
An Israeli Arrow anti-ballistic missile interceptor made the first ever direct interception of a live ballistic missile in space (above the Karman line 100 km altitude limit). The tracked ballistic missile, apparently aimed at Israel, was allegedly fired by Houthi...
