A Long March 2D/2 (CZ-2D/2) launch vehicle has successfully launched a military reconnaissance satellite into a near polar sun-synchronous low Earth orbit. The launch took place at the Jiuquan launch site in Inner Mongolia, China, at 0710 GMT on 17 March 2019. China...
US President Donald Trump and his North Korean counterpart Kim Jong-un have agreed to meet each other as part of a South Korean-brokered negotiation involving the denuclearisation of the North Korean regime’s armed forces in return for non-interference...
In between waiting for his certain re-election, presiding over Russian Air Force’s bombing campaign in Syria, and batting off allegations that the Kremlin is ruthlessly assassinating its opponents and “traitors”, Russia’s President Vladimir...
Launching from the Tanegashima Space Center, Japan, at 0434 GMT, 27 February, an H-2A medium lift rocket has carried the IGS-6 (Optical) spacecraft to Low Earth Orbit (LEO). The H-2A rocket built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) flew in its “202”...
Launching at 0539 GMT from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, Southwest China, a Long March 2C (CZ-2C) light-launcher has carried four payloads to their circular 600 x 600 km low Earth orbit. The three primary payloads are the fourth group of Yaogan 30 spacecraft...
An Atlas V rocket operated by the United Launch Alliance on mission AV-076 put the SBIRS GEO-4 early warning/missile warning satellite on behalf of the US Air Force into orbit on 20 January 2018. The Atlas V 411 rocket lifted off at 0048 GMT from its launch pad at...
