A Soyuz 2-1v rocket was launched from the Plesetsk military launch site in Northern Russia at 1959 GMT on 9 September. The satellite carried has been given the codename Cosmos-2551 (Kosmos-2551) to indicate that it is a Russian military satellite. In fact it is a...
The Astra Space Inc, Rocket 3.3 executed what has to be one of the strangest “dithering” lift-offs ever witnessed, before later having its flight eventually terminated downrange by the Range Safety Officer. The launch took place from the Kodiak Island...
A Long March 3B (CZ-3B) rocket lifted-off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, China, carrying a experimental communications technology test satellite into a Geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO). Occurring at 1541 GMT on 24 August, this mission was roughly 4.5...
A normally two-stage Long March 2C (CZ-2C) rocket with an Yuanzheng-1S upper-stage lifted-off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China, at 1115 GMT on 24 August. Although there was some confusion among initial reports, it seems this mission carried three...
China successfully launched the Tianhui 2-02-A and B satellites on a Long March 4B (CZ-4B) vehicle from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre, China, at 2232 GMT on 18 August. The satellites were deployed into a sun-synchronous, low Earth orbit of approximately 500 km x...
A Vega rocket lifted-off from the European Spaceport, French Guiana, carrying the Pleiades Neo 4 reconnaissance satellite plus four small co-payloads at 0147 GMT on 17 August. The payloads were carried to sun-synchronous low Earth orbit and were sequentially deployed...
