Lifting off from Launch Complex 37, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, a Delta IV Medium (5,4) medium launch vehicle carried WGS 9 (Wideband Global Satcom) to Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO). The launch occurred at 0018 GMT, 19 March following a half hour delay...
China’s small solid-propellant Kaituozhe KT-2A launch vehicle was launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre, China, at 2353 GMT on 2 February 2017. On board the flight was the Tiankong-1 spacecraft, which was built by the China Aerospace and Industry...
An Atlas V vehicle, flying in its 401 configuration, lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base carrying the NRO L-79 mission to Low Earth Orbit (LEO) at 1749 GMT on 1 March. The flight marks the 70th Atlas V orbital launch and the 14th flown for the NRO (National...
A Minotaur 1 rocket contracted by US Air Force on behalf of the US National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) for launch of NRO L-111. The contract for the mystery satellite is worth US$29.2 million. The contract stipulates that the military launch, which will take place...
At 1518 GMT 0n 5 January 2017, a Long March 3B/G2 rocket took off from the Xichang launch site in China. Aboard was a mysterious satellite called TJS-2. The satellite was placed into a geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO) on its way to a final operational position in...
While US$100,000 is not a great deal of money in the great scheme of things. However, it was enough to satisfy the government of its good intent when the joint Boeing/Lockheed Martin-owned launch provider United Launch Alliance (ULA) paid it as part of an agreement...
