The Russian space agency and industrial complex, Roscosmos, has declared the Angosat communications satellite a “total loss” for operational and insurance purposes. Roscosmos plans to build a replacement spacecraft for Angola. The satellite ran into...
The Japanese communications satellite operator Broadcasting Satellite System Corp (BSat) has awarded a launch order for the launch of its BSAT 4B spacecraft. The launch will be a flight of the Ariane 5 ECA in 2020. The 3,520kg spacecraft is currently under...
The military and government communications satellite Blagovest 12L has been launched to a Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) under the call sign Cosmos 2526 by a Proton M Breeze M flying out of the Baikonour Cosmodrome near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan. The launch took place...
The Chinese authorities have released the cause of the failure of the Long March 5 flight at 1123 GMT on 2 July 2017, which crashed in the ocean 346 seconds after lift-off, destroying the experimental high throughput satellite Shi Jian 18. During the flight, a plume...
At 2313 GMT an Atlas V 551 rocket operated by the United Launch Alliance (ULA) was launched from Cape Canveral in Florida. The orbit achieved was a 39,000km circular High Earth orbit flown to via the Centaur upper stage using a final stage burn to circularise orbit...
Having had its confidence shaken by the post launch failure of its GSAT-6A satellite, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) bounced back with the successful launch of its IRNSS-1I (Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System-1i) navigation satellite by...
