A Long March 4C rocket launch vehicle successfully lifted off from the Jiuquan launch site in Inner Mongolia in China at 0425 GMT on 10 April 2018. Four satellites were being carried into low Earth orbit. Of the four spacecraft carried, three were classed as Yaogan...
In a successful return to flight following a trajectory error on the previous launch, an Ariane 5 ECA successfully placed two major communications satellites, DSN-1/Superbird 8 and Hylas 4, into a Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO). The launch took place at 2134 GMT...
We give our congratulations to the Royal Air Force (RAF) which celebrates its centenary from its formation from the merged Royal Flying Corp and Royal Naval Air Service in April 1918. After helping complete the defeat of Germany in World War I, and fight some of...
A small Soyuz 2-1v rocket was successfully launched from the Plesetsk launch site in Northern Russia at 1738 GMT on 29 March. Aboard was the Cosmos 2525 experimental reconnaissance satellite which uses the EMKA (Experimental Small Space Apparatus) bus design. The...
The European Union (EU) earlier this year ended its attempt to turn the joint EU/ESA operated commercial Galileo navigation signal into a revenue service – always an unlikely prospect given that its competitors the US GPS and Russian Glonass signals are free. ...
After a competitive tendering process, the US launch provider, United Launch Services (ULA) has been awarded a US$354,811,947 firm-fixed-price contract for launch services to deliver the AFSPC-8 and AFSPC-12 satellites to their intended orbit. This contract provides...
