A SpaceX Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket successfully launched 10 Iridium next generation satellites from Vandeberg, California, on 11 January 2018, at 1531 GMT. The satellites carried were Iridium NEXT 68-77. The vehicle’s reusable first stage was successfully landed...
A Chinese military communications satellite Chinasat 2D (Zhongxing-2D) – the third in the series of military Shentong 2 class satellites – was launched by a Long March 3B-G3 (CZ-3B-G3) rocket at 1703 GMT on 10 January 2018. The launch using a Long March...
The WorldView-4 commercial imaging satellite has experienced a failure in its control moment gyros (CMGs), which has effectively ended its mission as it prevented the spacecraft from stably pointing its imaging systems. The failures of the CMGs began earlier in the...
US space tracking authorities have confirmed the breakup of satellite messaging constellation operator Orccomm’s first generation (OG1) satellite launched in 1998, Orccomm 16 (FM 16), Catalogue Number 25417. The time of breakup was at approximately 0712 GMT on 22 Dec...
China has launched its new YZ-3 upper stage attached to its Long March 2D (CZ-2D) rocket. The launch of the Long March 2D/YZ-3 occurred from the Jiuquan launch site at 0800 GMT on 29 December 2018. The launch carried a satellite called Chongqing test satellite (aka...
A Soyuz 2-1A/Fregat rocket was launched at 0207 GMT from the Vostochny launch site in Far Eastern Russia on 27 December. On board were a variety of spacecraft. The “main payloads” carried were two 490kg Kanopus spacecraft (Kanopus V5 and V6) which are...
