An improved version of the Chinese Long March-3B/G2 (CZ-3B/G2) rocket has successfully launched the Chinasat 19 communications satellite (aka Zhongxing-19) on a geosynchronous Transfer orbit (GTO) from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre, China at 1150 GMT on 5...
Rocket Lab successfully launched an Electron KS rocket from Māhia Peninsula, New Zealand, at 1727 GMT on 04 November 2022. The Electron was carrying MATS, a Swedish research satellite, studying waves in Earth’s atmosphere. The flight was dubbed “Catch me if you...
“Stealth” as a concept has been around since the late 1970s when the US military realised that via the use of certain shapes and radar absorbent materials, you could cut an aircraft’s radar return by over 90 per cent. This meant that your...
Hotbird 13G, the sister communications satellite to Hotbird 13F, has been successfully launched by a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket flying out of Cape Canaveral, Florida. The launch took place at 0522 GMT on 3 November 2022. The Eurostar NEO bus spacecraft was built by...
Russia launched a missile early warning satellite from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Northern Russia, on 2 November. The Soyuz 2-1b rocket lifted-off at 0648 GMT carrying the Tundra (EKS) 6 satellite into orbit. The spacecraft was then transported to its elliptical Molniya...
One of the most powerful rockets in the world, a Falcon Heavy Block 5 (px), whose lift off consisted of a main stage with nine Merlin engines firing, supported by two booster rockets, also each with nine Merlin engines firing, was launched from from the Launch...
