A PSLV rocket lifted off at one second past midnight on the morning of 22 May 2019 from the Sriharikota launch site in India. The PSLV-C46 flght was carrying the Risat 2B radar satellite carrying an X-band SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar). The satellite has been...
Arianespace and the European Space Agency (ESA/Earth Observation Programs directorate) have signed launch services contract for the launch on a Vega rocket of SEOSat (Spanish Earth Observation SATellite) for Spain’s Center for Development of Industrial...
Arianespace has announced that it has been selected by exactEarth to launch the 110 kg ESAIL satellite using a Vega as part of the launcher’s Small Spacecraft Mission Service (SSMS) Proof of Concept (POC) flight from Kourou, French Guiana, in 2019. This final contract...
China has launched Beidou DW45 (aka Beidou 2-G8), its 45th satellite of its Beidou navigation satellite constellation. The launch took place from the Xichang launch site and used a Long March-3C/G2 rocket. The rocket lifted-off at 1548 GMT on 17 May 2019. The...
While Sky and Space Global (SAS) might be struggling to pay manufacturer GomSpace for its 200 satellite Pearls LEO mobile communications constellation, that has not stopped its ordering some more satellites to improve its global reach. It has placed an order for eight...
The European Space Agency’s Aeolus – Earth Explorer Atmospheric Dynamics Mission – for wind profile monitoring is in trouble as the spacecraft’s main wind measurement instrument, using Lidar, has a faulty laser. The laser is now degrading at a rate of 1...
