The Royal Thai Air Force has a history going back to 1913. It operates a potent fighter/fighter bomber force including F-16, Gripen and F-5 jets. And now it is getting into space. The Royal Thai Air Force has ordered a 6U Cubesat as a reconnaissance/Earth...
China launched the HAIYANG 1C satellite at 0315 GMT on 7 September on a Long March 2C launch vehicle from Taiyuan Satellite Launching Centre in China. The satellite will be used to monitor oceanic pollution, resource investigation, construction of bayou and ports and...
NASA has announced that its Kepler planet-finding spacecraft is back in operation. After the Kepler team received warning of a low fuel state, to ensure that the spacecraft enough for a reorientation for a data download (the antenna has to be reorientated...
Having previously been charged to build to previous 3U Cubesat’s as technology demonstrators (KIPP and CASE) for the Toronto based satellite operator Kepler Communications, the Scottish small satellite manufacturer AAC Clyde (the new name of Clyde Space...
Ahhh…the irony. The Vega launch of the Lidar-equipped ESA satellite Aeolus (aka ADM-Aeolus), which was designed and built to measure the dynamics of strong winds, was delayed by 24 hours…err, due to strong winds. Our thanks to Seradata’s Phil Hylands for pointing...
The Russian spacecraft manufacturer, the ISS-Reshetnev Company has won a contract from the state-owned Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC) – aka Komischeskaya Svyaz – to build two new telecommunications satellites, Express AMU-3 (Express-AMU3)...
