by David Todd | Feb 8, 2016 | Launches, Military space
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), otherwise known as North Korea, formally announced that its Unha-3 rocket successfully launched the Kwangmyongsong-4 earth observation satellite at 0030 GMT on 7 February 2016. Nevertheless there are doubts...
by David Todd | Feb 8, 2016 | Launches, Military space, Russia, Satellites
At 0021 GMT on 7 February 2015, a Soyuz 2-1b/Fregat M was launched from the Plesetsk launch site in Northern Russia. Aboard the rocket was a Glonass M51, more formally known as Cosmos 2514, which is a navigation satellite on its way to a Medium Earth Orbit with...
by David Todd | Feb 8, 2016 | commercial launch services, Launches, Military space, Russia, Satellites, Seradata News
At 1338 GMT on 5 February 2016, an Atlas V 401 launch vehicle, operated by the United Launch Alliance (ULA), successfully lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Station in Florida, USA. Aboard the flight was the GPS IIF-12 satellite, which was being launched into the US...
by David Todd | Jan 7, 2016 | commercial launch services, Launches, Military space, Satellites
On 5 January 2015, Arianespace announced that it has signed a launch services contract with French space agency CNES for the cluster of three new CERES signals intelligence satellites. The Vega light launcher will be used as the launch vehicle. The CERES (Capacité de...
by David Todd | Dec 15, 2015 | Launches, Military space, Russia, Satellites
At 0019 GMT on 13 December 2015, a Proton M Breeze M launched Cosmos 2513 which is known to be a Garpun-class military communications relay satellite, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, near Tyuratam, in Kazakhstan. The Breeze M conducted three firings to place the...
by David Todd | Dec 11, 2015 | China, Launches, Military space, Satellites
China has launched a new communications satellite dubbed CHINASAT 1C (ZHONGXING 1C) from the launch site at Xichang at 1626 GMT on 9 December 2015. The rocket which carried the spacecraft to a geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) on its way to a final geostationary...
