Still smarting over world reaction to the nerve agent poison assassination attempt on Russian double agent/traitor Sergei Skripal and his daughter (an attack which also killed an innocent bystander in Salisbury, England, who accidentally came into contact with the...
Lifting off at 0140 GMT, 29 July, from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People’s Republic of China, a Long March-3B/Y1 (CZ-3B/Y1) rocket carried two BEIDOU satellites in to orbit. The two units, BEIDOU-3M5/-3M6, form part of the indigenous Chinese Beidou...
Dmitry Paison, director of the rocket and missile manufacturer TsNIIMash (the Central Research Institute of Machine Building), based at Korolyev near Moscow, has been fired over allegations of espionage within his company. One of his employees, Victor Kudryavtsev, 74,...
On 21 June, The United States Air Force (USAF) announced that they had awarded the launch of the classified, AFSPC-52 mission to SpaceX. This mission will utilise the SpaceX Falcon Heavy vehicle and is planned for “late in the fiscal year 2020”. This award...
Having had a successful, if insubstantial, peace making summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, US President Donald J. Trump returned to the White House to much discord. Controversial topics include, the US familial separation of illegal immigrant children, and...
A Soyuz 2-1b/Fregat M rocket was launched from the Plesetsk launch site in Northern Russia at 2146 GMT on 16 June 2018. The Glonass M-59 satellite aboard, now dubbed Cosmos 2527 under the military designation system, was a Glonass navigation satellite which fits into...
