The Japanese space probe Hayabusa 2 has released an explosive-charge armed impactor called Small Carry-On Impactor (SCI) It was released at 0156 GMT on 5 April to deliberately explode on the asteroid 162173 Ryugu to carve out crater. Before the explosion, a small...
At 1703 GMT on 4 April, four O3b satellites for the European SES satellite operator were launched by a Soyuz 2-1B rocket from the “European Space Port’s” Sinnamary launch site near Kourou in French Guiana. The rocket was operated by Arianespace....
A new version of India’s PSLV rocket made a launch of 29 satellites plus its own repurposed upper-stage spacecraft. This new version was the PSLV QL, which carries four solid rockets instead of the more normal six. The launch took place at 0357 GMT on 1 April 2019...
China has launched the latest version of its Tianlian data relay satellites which are broadly equivalent to NASA’s TDRS types. The Tianlian 2-01, which uses the DFH-4 bus design, was launched at 1551 GMT on 30 March 2019 from Xichang aboard a Long March 3B-G2. ...
An Electron rocket built and operated by RocketLab lifted off from the Mahia Penisula launch site in New Zealand at 2327 GMT on 28 March 2019. Aboard was a satellite called the Radio Frequency Risk Reduction Deployment Demonstration Satellite (aka R3D2) which will...
The private Chinese company OneSpace Technology suffered a launch failure using its OS-M1 (aka Chongqing and SQX-1Y1) rocket on its first orbital attempt. After a successful lift off from the Jiuquan launch site in the Gobi Desert at circa 0939 GMT on 27 March, the...
