A Long March 4B (CZ-4B) launch vehicle has successfully launched three Tianhui Earth imaging satellites into low Earth apparently Sun-synchnronous orbits. The satellites carry the official titles of Tianhui Yi Hao 01 Xing, Tianhui Yi Hao 02 Xing, Tianhui Yi Hao 03...
The Cygnus NG-11 unmanned cargo spacecraft, which is named Roger Chaffee after the astronaut killed in the 1967 Apollo 1 fire, was launched into a low Earth orbit on its way to the International Space Station (ISS) from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) based...
The firm Clyde Space (aka AAC Clyde) has been given a contract worth US$5.9 million by Orbcomm to build and operate two 4 kg CubeSat class spacecraft each carrying three Automatic Identification System ship-tracking receivers. The spacecraft will be launched in 2020...
The Thailand-based satellite operator mu-Space has signed a launch contract with the launch provider Relativity Space Inc for a launch of its Terran-1 small launch vehicle. The identity of the satellite remains undisclosed. The launch will take place in 2022. ...
China launched another satellite as part of its Beidou navigation satellite constellation at 1441 GMT on 20 April 2019. The launch from the Xichang launch site used a Long March 3B/G2 launch vehicle to send the CAST-built Beidou 3-I1Q on a geosynchronous transfer...
The European Space Agency has formally ordered seven Ariane 6 flights to take place between 2021 and 2023. The order has allowed ArianeGroup, the conglomerate building the Ariane 6, to start production of the first batch of 14 launch vehicles. It has not been...
