India has announced that its planned GSAT-20 communications satellite (aka GSAT-N2) will be launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch in Q2 2024. The 4,700 kg GSAT-20 spacecraft is defined as a Ka-band high thoughput satellite (HTS). The satellite is being financed...
A launch of the PSLV-DL (flight number PSLV-C58) from Satish Dhawann Space Centre, Sriharikota, India took place at 0340 GMT on 1 January 2024 marking the first launch of the New Year. It was carrying XPoSAT – an X-ray astronomy satellite (official name is X-ray...
At 0013 GMT on 30 December 2023, a Long March 2C/YZ-1 (CZ-2C/YZ-1S) was launched from Jiuquan launch site carrying a suspected set of three broadband internet communications satellites as prototypes for a Chinese internet satellite constellation. The satellites are...
After being delayed by weather earlier in the month, a Falcon Heavy rocket (using Block 5 boosters) was finally launched at 0107 GMT on 29 December 2023 from Pad LC-39A at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA with the seventh mission of the Boeing-built US military...
A Russian military satellite of unknown nature was launched into orbit by a launch of a Soyuz 2-1v small launch vehicle at 0703 GMT on 27 December from the Plesetsk launch site in Northern Russia. The exact nature of the satellite has not yet been disclosed. A single...
At 2239 GMT on Christmas Day (25 December 2023) a Long March 11 (CZ-11) launched three Shiyan-24C experimental satellites from from a barge launch pad off Guangdong. . A Long March 11 (CZ-11) rocket launched SY24C satellites have been cataloged in a 540 x 553 x 540...
