After a previous technical delay to the rocket, China successfully launched Beidou 3 G3Q navigation satellite to a GTO (Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit) at 0143 GMT on 23 June 2020 on a Long March 3B/G3 vehicle from Xichang. The Beidou spacecraft is last needed to...
At 0513 GMT, 13 June 2020, the twelfth Electron mission for Rocket Lab lifted-off from Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand. This mission was called “Don’t Stop Me Now” by Rocket Lab, and was carrying five payloads to LEO. The payloads were: the...
Russia launched the Cosmos 2546 satellite into a highly elliptical Earth orbit at 0731 GMT using a Soyuz 2-1B/Fregat M launch vehicle from Pad 43/4 at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Northern Russia. Cosmos 2546 is also known as Tundra 4, Kupol No. 4 and EKS 4. The...
American satellite manufacturer Northrop Grumman received an awaited order for two polar orbit Next-Gen OPIR satellites on 18 May. The contract is valued at US$2.37 billion. The Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (Next-gen OPIR) satellites will provide...
At 1314 GMT on 17 May, an Atlas V 501 rocket lifted off from its pad in Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying the X-37/OTV-6 mission of the X-37B spaceplane. The flight, dubbed USSF-7, marked the first time that the X-37B was carried into space with a service module...
A consortium of Norwegian and Dutch research centres (Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI), the Royal Netherlands Aerospace Centre (NLR) and Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO)) has selected satellite integrator NanoAvionics to...
