Lifting-off at 0054 GMT, 25 September 2019, a Chinese Long March 2D/2 (CZ-2D/2) rocket has lifted the YUNHAI 1-02 meteorological satellite in to a Low Earth Orbit (LEO). The mission launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, Northern China. The official...
Iridium Communications Inc, a provider of Mobile Satellite Services via its Low Earth Orbit (LEO) communications satellite constellation, has signed a seven-year Enhanced Mobile Satellite Services (EMSS) contract with the US Department of Defense. The EMSS contract...
Given its financial woes, it was not a surprise that Vector had to withdraw from its contract with the US Air Force to launch the Agile Small Launch Operational Normalizer (ASLON) 45 mission. That was originally supposed to be formed as an upper stage/delivery...
An investigation has revealed the cause of the Vega launch failure on flight VV15, which lost the Falcon Eye 1 satellite causing an insurance loss of circa US$416 million. The sudden “violent” anomaly occurred after what appeared to be a successful launch from the...
Launching on 30 August 2019, from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia, a Rockot launch vehicle has carried the GEO-IK-2 3 satellite to a Low Earth Orbit (LEO). The GEO-IK 2 satellites are third-generation Geodetic satellites launched for the Russian Ministry of Defence....
In a Rose Garden speech outside of the White House, US President Donald Trump, has formally reinaugurated the US Space Command. This is, in effect, a release of US Space Command from the command structure of the US Strategic Command into which it was subsumed some...
