Lifting off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China, at 0243 GMT, 9 October, a CALT Long March 2C rocket carried two YAOGAN 32-01 units into LEO. This launch saw the first usage of a new “Yuanzheng-1S” (Y-1S) upper stage, which has reportedly...
While Japan’s Minerva II hopper rovers got there first, at IAC 2018 the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) was celebrating the landing success of the German-French Mobile Asteroid Surface SCouT (MASCOT) lander on 3 October. Having been dropped off by the Hayabusa 2 mother...
The Hubble Space Telescope fell into a safe mode after one of its remaining three fully operational gyros malfunctioned on 5 October 2018 preventing observations using the venerable astronomical spacecraft. The gyro concerned had been reportedly degrading for a year. ...
At 0222 GMT, 8 October 2018, an SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base, on the West Coast of the USA, carrying the SAOCOM 1A, L-band, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite to Low Earth Orbit (LEO). The satellite was launched for CONAE...
The launch of the CENTISPACE 1-S1 small satellite took place at 0413 GMT, 29 September, 2018, from the Jiuguan Satellite Launch Center in Northern China, utilising the Kuaizhou 1A solid-launch vehicle. This marks the second time this new launch vehicle has placed a...
“Arianespace is delighted to announce that Horizons 3e and Azerspace 2/Intelsat 38 have been separated as planned in their targeted geostationary transfer orbit. For Ariane 5 mission No. 100, our heavyweight launcher has once more performed flawlessly....
