The three solid stage plus liquid upper stage commercial Chinese launch vehicle Kuaizhou 1A (KZ-1A)was launched at 2341 GMT on 30 August 2019 from the Jiuquan launch site in China. Aboard were two satellites, Kuxue-09 (KX-09) and Xiaoxing1-07 (TY1-07) which were being...
Launching on 30 August 2019, from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia, a Rockot launch vehicle has carried the GEO-IK-2 3 satellite to a Low Earth Orbit (LEO). The GEO-IK 2 satellites are third-generation Geodetic satellites launched for the Russian Ministry of Defence....
It was revealed in company reports on 23 August that Ovzon, the Swedish satellite broadband company, had signed a deal with European launch provider Arianespace for a 2021 launch utilising the Ariane 5. This replaces a previously declared deal – recently described as...
India’s Chandrayaan 2 achieved a make-or-break 29 minute burn to brake itself into lunar orbit on 20 August, after slowly raising its orbit and injecting itself in to a Trans Lunar Injection (TLI) orbit on 13 August. The burn was made at 0332 GMT on 20 August....
After the US$416 million loss of the Falcon Eye 1 in a Vega launch failure, it was reported that the Chinasat-18 (Zhongxing-18) satellite has suffered a similar demise – albeit after a successful launch by a Chinese Long March 3B/G2. The launch took place at...
The small satellite manufacturer Blue Canyon Technologies (BCT) has been awarded the contract by Viasat to build a US Air Force test satellite to act as a “Link 16” communications relay terminal in low Earth Orbit. The test satellite will use a BCT XB1 12U...
