China has launched the mysterious TJS-3 satellite from the Xichangh launch centre using a Long March 3B-G2 rocket. The launch took place from the Xichang launch site at 1653 GMT on 24 December 2018. Called the Tongxin Jishu Shiyan Weixing-3 (TJS-3), the satellite is...
A Falcon 9 launch took place from the Cape Canavaral Air Station in Florida at 1351 GMT on 23 December 2018. The new GPS IIIA navigation satellite carried will take its place in the 20,000km Medium Earth Orbit constellation, replacing one of the early GPS IIR series...
A Proton M Breeze M (Phase 4) rocket successfully launched Cosmos 2533 (Kosmos 2533) at 0020 GMT on 21 December 2018 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan. The launch of the Russian military communications satellite, aka Blagovest 3, was apparently...
An uprated version (using higher propellant loadings and a higher thrust) of the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) GSLV Mk II rocket using the indigenously produced cryogenic upper stage was successfully launched from Sriharikota in India. The rocket...
Having ordered a SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch for a satellite, start up satellite operator Ovzon has ordered a small GEO communications satellite called Ovzon 3. As it eyes giving a mobile broadband service to the Middle East and African region, Ovzon ordered the...
Start-up satellite constellation operator OneWeb has announced that it is reducing the size of its planned satellite constellation in low Earth orbit (LEO) by one third from 900 to 600 satellites. This reduction, and the potential cost saving, was made possible after...
