After a previous technical delay to the rocket, China successfully launched Beidou 3 G3Q navigation satellite to a GTO (Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit) at 0143 GMT on 23 June 2020 on a Long March 3B/G3 vehicle from Xichang. The Beidou spacecraft is last needed to...
Intelsat, the global satellite operator undergoing Chapter 11 proceedings in the USA, confirmed on 15 June that it had ordered six new GEO satellites from American manufacturers. These are broken down into four satellites ordered from Maxar and two from Northrop...
At 0513 GMT, 13 June 2020, the twelfth Electron mission for Rocket Lab lifted-off from Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand. This mission was called “Don’t Stop Me Now” by Rocket Lab, and was carrying five payloads to LEO. The payloads were: the...
At 0921 GMT on 13 June, the delayed launch of a Falcon 9v1.2 Block 5 rocket carried 58 Starlink satellites as part of the SpaceX low Earth orbit communications satellite constellation. Also aboard the launch from the Cape Canaveral launch pad which hosted another...
The Hai Yang 1D (HY-1D) ocean monitoring satellite was successfully launched by a Long March 2C (CZ-2C). The satellite is designed to monitor ocean temperatures etc. The launch took place from its launch pad in the Taiyuan Space Centre in the Shanxi province of China...
SpaceX successfully launched 60 of its Starlink communications satellites into low Earth orbit on a Falcon 9 vehicle. The launch occurred from the Cape Canaveral, Florida launch sight, at 0125 GMT on 4 June 2020. The first stage of the launch vehicle was successfully...
