With the UK General Election imminent, all the major parties have revealed their manifesto promises. The smaller parties – the SNP, Plaid Cymru, Brexit Party etc – do have some distinguishing features, but in this analysis we will stick mainly to the “big four”. The...
After 780 days in orbit (having been launched on 7 September 2017), the US Air Force unmanned mini-shuttle X-73B landed at the Kennedy Space Centre air strip on 27 October. Details of the military mission are mainly secret but are thought to involve both imaging and...
Lifting-off at 1521 GMT, on 17 October, a Long March-3B/G2 rocket has dropped-off the TJSW-4 satellite into a Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO). The mission lifted-off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, Southern China. The TJSW (Tongxin Jishu Shiyan Weixing)...
Due to mission delays putting some of its launches beyond 30 Sept 2019, the US Air Force Missiles and Space Center has signed a follow up Launch Operations Support (LOPS) contract with the ULA worth US$1.18 billion covering NRO L-44, NRO L-82, NRO L-91, NRO L-68 and...
Having already ordered a small reconnaissance satellite from the Netherlands-based ISISpsace (originally called ISIS BV) in September 2018, the Royal Thai Air Force has decided to order a second one. The new spacecraft is based on a ISIS 6U cubesat bus design and will...
The second Soyuz rocket to launch in under 24 hours lifted-off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia, at 0746 GMT, 26 September. The mission saw a modern Soyuz 2-1B variant carry the third, next-generation, early-warning satellite – known as TUNDRA 13L –...
