India has conducted the Anti-Satellite (ASAT) test shooting down of one of its own spacecraft, using a missile interceptor system. Prime Minister Narendra Modi noted that the interception, under a project codenamed Mission Shankti, destroyed an orbiting satellite. In...
Lifting-off from Kourou, French Guiana, at 0151 GMT on 22 March, an Arianespace Vega light-lift launch vehicle carried the Italian-made PRISMA (PRecursore IperSpettrale della Missione Applicativa) hyper-spectral Earth-Imaging satellite to a sun-synchronous low Earth...
At 0026 GMT on 16 March 2019, In what would be one of the last flight of the Delta IV, a Delta IVM+ 5,4 launched the WGS 10 military communications satellite from the Cape Canaveral Air Station in Florida. The ULA operated flight went as planned and the spacecraft...
Having already had its GRUS-1A satellite launched aboard a Soyuz rocket in March, Axelspace Corporation announced on 12 March 2019 that it had contracted with GK Launch Services to launch the 80kg GRUS-1B and 1C satellites along with a sister satellite called Fukui...
When OneWeb took out its multi-launch booking of Soyuz rockets in 2015 with Arianespace, it also took three options to fly on the new Ariane 6. It has now decided to exercise one of these options, electing to fly on the maiden flight of the Ariane 6. The two-booster...
A Long March 3B-G2 (CZ-3B-G2) rocket successfully put into orbit the Chinasat 6C (Zhongxing 6C) communications satellite into a supersynchronous transfer orbit of 400603 x 181km at 181 km at 24.6 degrees inclination on its way to its final geostationary Earth orbit...
