Lifting-off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China, at 0710 GMT, a Long March 2D (CZ-2D) rocket has carried the LKW 3 (YAOGAN 31-3) high-resolution, Earth observation satellite into low Earth orbit (LEO). This is the third in a series of spacecraft with...
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Medium+ (5,2) rocket carried a satellite payload into orbit from SLC-6 (Space Launch Complex-6), Vandenberg in California at 2210 GMT on 12 January 2018. The spacecraft was officially codenamed the NRO L-47 mission showing it...
At 0100 GMT the mysterious ZUMA payload was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force station (CCAFS) by a Falcon 9v1.2R rocket. The launch took the payload, reportedly owned by the US Government and built by the Northrop Grumman Corporation, to low Earth orbit. There is...
At 1944 GMT on Christmas Day (25 December 2017) China launched three Yaogan 30 spacecraft (Yaogan 30-03-A, B and C) to a 600 km low Earth orbit inclined at 35 degrees relative to the equator. The launch which used a Long March 2C rocket took place from Xiching –...
A new Russian-built satellite Angosat-1 initially failed to work after its launch. Angosat-1 is a communications satellite built for Angola by the Russian firm, RSC Energia, employing a new version of its Yamal bus – the USB (Victoria). All went well with the Zenit...
It has been revealed by the New York Times that the old “Project Blue Book” investigation into UFO sightings, which ended in 1969, was effectively restarted by the US Government in 2007. The new project, dubbed the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification...
