The Russian Ministry of Defence has successfully launched a Soyuz 2-1A from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Northern Russia at 0803 GMT on 19 May 2022. The rocket is thought to have launched an electro-optical area surveillance satellite to a lower Earth Orbit (LEO)...
The Cosmos 2555 (Kosmos 2555) Russian military codenamed satellite, which was launched from Plesetsk on 29 April by an Angara 1.2 rocket, has not performed any manoeuvres in its very low Sun-synchronous orbit. Analysts now think that the satellite, which is suspected...
In the battle for world opinion with respect to the war in Ukraine, most now decry Russia for its initial invasion and for its subsequent behaviour. And satellite imagery has been key to this. NATO is providing everything it can to Ukraine short of actual military...
A Soyuz 2-1B rocket was launched at 1120 GMT on 7 April 2022 from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Northern Russia. It carried the Cosmos 2554 (formally the Lotos S6) spacecraft. which is a part of the Russian Liana programme. This Russian Ministry of Defence satellite is...
While Roscosmos rather cruelly joked that it might leave him in space after US protests against the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in the end NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei, a former US Army Colonel, returned to Earth on board the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft on 30 March 2021....
On Tuesday afternoon at the Satellite 2022 conference, Washington D.C. representatives from the main global launch providers gathered for a talk. The European participant on the “Next Generation Launchers Gearing Up” panel was CEO of Arianespace, Stéphane...
