Russia successfully launched the EXPRESS 80 and EXPRESS 103 communications satellites into Geostationary Transfer Orbit an a Proton M/Briz M vehicle. The mission lifted-off at 2125 GMT on 30 July from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The two satellites will be used...
UK-based Open Cosmos, a newspace, turnkey CubeSat mission provider, announced on 29 July 2020 that it is working on two demonstration units for Spanish, start-up, Sateliot. Sateliot is developing a CubeSat constellation to provide continuous global IoT connectivity...
Lifting off at 0313 GMT on 25 July 2020, a Chinese Long March 4B rocket has carried three payloads to Sun-synchronous, Low Earth Orbit (LEO). The rocket blasted-off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, Northern China. The primary payload on-board was the Ziyuan...
US Space Command has formally protested about the Russian “inspection satellite” Cosmos 2543 releasing a high-velocity space object – believed to be a missile projectile. It notes that the suspected missile, object Sat Cat No 45915, was released on 15...
China successfully launched the Tianwen-1 mission on a Long March 5B launch vehicle at 0441 GMT on 23 July. The rocket was launched from the Wenchang Satellite Launch Center on Hainan Island, China. Tianwen-1 consists of an orbiter and a rover to study the planet...
After a series of delays apparently caused by technical concerns over the upper stage, SpaceX successfully launched the South Korean military communications satellite Anasis II at 2130 GMT on 20 July. The mission utilised their Falcon 9 launch vehicle, and lifted-off...
