A Falcon 9 launch took place from the Cape Canavaral Air Station in Florida at 1351 GMT on 23 December 2018. The new GPS IIIA navigation satellite carried will take its place in the 20,000km Medium Earth Orbit constellation, replacing one of the early GPS IIR series...
A Proton M Breeze M (Phase 4) rocket successfully launched Cosmos 2533 (Kosmos 2533) at 0020 GMT on 21 December 2018 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan. The launch of the Russian military communications satellite, aka Blagovest 3, was apparently...
An uprated version (using higher propellant loadings and a higher thrust) of the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) GSLV Mk II rocket using the indigenously produced cryogenic upper stage was successfully launched from Sriharikota in India. The rocket...
Seradata gives its sympathy and best wishes to those airline passengers and crew stranded while trying to travel from London’s second airport Gatwick after it was shut down by rogue “drone” aircraft buzzing the apron. While we have sometimes joked...
The first example of three Composante Spatiale Optique (CSO) high-resolution military reconnaissance satellites for France was launched on 19 December 2018 by an Arianespace-operated Soyuz ST-A (Fregat M). The 3,565kg CSO-1 satellite built by Airbus Space and Defence...
Using its past experience in building the Cosmo-Skymed radar satellite series, Thales Alenia Space has been approached to be part of the team building four new radar satellites for the South Korean Agency for Defence Development. The firm has since signed separate...
