After suffering a series of mainly weather related launch delays over previous days, an Atlas V 421 operated by the United Launch Alliance (ULA) successfully launched a military satellite at 0728 on 15 October 2017 from its launch pad at the the Cape Canaveral air...
In a low-key mission conducted at 0420 GMT on 29 September, a Chinese Long March-2C (CZ-2C) rocket lifted-off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, Sichuan province. The mission is the first Chinese launch after two previous missions suffered anomalies resulting...
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) operated Atlas V rocket in the 541/RL10C-1 configuration successfully lifted off at 0549 GMT on 24 September 2017 from the Vandenberg launch site in California. It was carrying the NRO L-42 spacecraft for the US National Reconnaissance...
Just as the world fears a nuclear war breaking out in the Korean Peninsula, it is a time to remember Stanislav Petrov passed away in May at the age of 77, who was the last man who saved the world from a highly destructive nuclear exchange during the height of the Cold...
A Russian Soyuz 2-1B launch vehicle lifted off from Site 43, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia, at 0002 GMT, 22 September, carrying the GLONASS-M 52 spacecraft for Russia’s indigenous GPS system – GLONASS. The Soyuz rocket made use of the Fregat-M upper stage to...
During his recent address to the United Nations in New York, US President Donald Trump said of North Korea’s nuclear armed ballistic missile programme: “The United States has great strength and patience, but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have...
