Launching at 1400 GMT, on 2 November 2019, from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS), Virginia, a top off an Antares 230+ rocket was the Cygnus NG-12 mission. Cygnus NG-12 is a commercial resupply mission to the ISS (International Space Station) contracted to...
At 0322 GMT, on 3 November 2019, a four-satellite mission launched out of Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, Northern China, on-board a Long March 4B (CZ-4B) rocket. The primary payload for the mission was the GAOFEN-7, high-resolution, Earth imaging satellite. This...
While the solar array problem on its Eutelsat 5 West B spacecraft was a shock, it does not mean that Eutelsat’s ordering plans have changed for the time being. Thales Alenia Space was celebrating the receipt of a construction contract for the Eutelsat 10B...
Lifting-off at 1521 GMT, on 17 October, a Long March-3B/G2 rocket has dropped-off the TJSW-4 satellite into a Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO). The mission lifted-off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, Southern China. The TJSW (Tongxin Jishu Shiyan Weixing)...
Launching at 0122 GMT, on 17 October, a Rocket Lab, Electron rocket – with Curie upper-stage equipped – has carried into orbit a 16U CubeSat payload for Astro Digital. The satellite is called PALISADE, and is based on the company’s own Corvus-16, 16U...
Following a launch abort at 0130 GMT, the Pegasus XL rocket successfully launched at 0200 GMT, 11 October 2019, carrying the NASA ICON satellite to Low Earth Orbit (LEO). The ICON (Ionospheric Connection Explorer) satellite is part of the NASA Explorer programme...
