The West Coast launch site of the United States of America, Vandenberg Air Force Base, hosted its first interplanetary mission on 5 May, at 1105 GMT. The mission saw a ULA (United Launch Alliance) Atlas V 401 carrying the NASA InSight Mars lander, and two CubeSats...
A Long March 3B-G2 (CZ-3B-G2) launch vehicle lifted off from the Xichang launch site in China at 1606 GMT on 3 March 2018. Aboard was a 5,250kg communcations satellite APSTAR 6C which was being launched under a construction and delivery to orbit contract for the Hong...
The ongoing row between the United Kingdom and the European Union over the Galileo work share is becoming increasingly bitter. The argument began when the EU prevented British companies from bidding on new work for the EU-financed, ESA-developed Galileo navigation...
UAE-based Fixed Satellite Service (FSS) operator Al Yah Satellite Communications Company – better known as Yahsat – have announced that they have entered into an agreement to purchase a majority stake in fellow UAE-based Mobile Satellite Service (MSS)...
China has launched four imaging satellites OHS-2A, -2B, -2C, and -2D and one video satellite OVS-2A into low Earth orbit (LEO) for Zhuhai Orbital Control Engineering Ltd at 0442 GMT on 26 April 2018. The Long March 11 (CZ-11) launch vehicle was launched from the...
Sentinel-3B, now officially called Copernicus Sentinel 3B in being part of the European Union’s Copernicus environment programme, was launched at 1757 GMT on 25 April 2018 from the Russian Plesetsk launch site. Rockot’s upper stage delivered the 1150 kg Sentinel-3B...
