The Telstar 19 Vantage communications satellite was launched at 0550 GMT on 22 June on a Falcon 9v1.3FT Block 5 from Cape Canaveral. The first stage, having separated two a half minutes after lift-off as planned, successfully landed on the drone “Of Course I Still...
Ahead of the Farnborough International Air Show, the UK Space Agency (UKSA)finally decided on its choice of launch site for vertical launching using conventional rockets. It is on the A’Mhoin peninsular, Sutherland, on the north coast of Scotland. Lockheed Martin...
China has launched the Beidou-2 I7 satellite as part of its navigation constellation which is broadly equivalent to the US GPS system. The satellite was launched at 2058 GMT on 9 July, on its way to a highly inclined geosynchronous Earth orbit by a Long March 3A...
A Soyuz 2-1a rocket was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan on 1751 GMT on 9 July. The rocket was carrying the Progress MS-09 freighter carrying 2,567 kg of supplies including water, food and oxygen to the International Space Station...
Two Pakistan-owned satellites have been launched from the Jiuquan launch site by a Long March 2C-SMA rocket at 0356 GMT on 9 July 2018. The 1,200 kg PRSS-1 satellite was built by Chinese Academy of Space Technology (CAST) and will be used for natural disaster...
The FIFA World Cup football competition is proving to be a welcome money spinner for the big satellite operators. The APSCC newsletter reports that Eutelsat is broadcasting 5,500 hours of HDTV (High Definition television) from 11 Russian cities during the...
