On 10 October 2022 at 0252 GMT the Glonass K1-17 navigation satellite was launched successfully by a Soyuz 2-1b/Fregat rocket from Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia. This is the second satellite in 2022 sent to replenish the Russian military Glonass navigation...
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA at 2305 GMT on 08 October 2022. The vehicle was carrying Galaxy 33 & 34, a pair of C-band communications satellites owned by Intelsat on their way to their final Geostationary...
New space company York Space Systems and Ball Aerospace have each won construction and operation contracts from the Space Development Agency (SDA), an agency within the USA’s Space Force. Colorado based York Space was awarded a US$200 million contract from the...
A Chinese Long March 11H (CZ-11H) mainly solid rocket launch vehicle reportedly launched a pair of Centispace commercial navigation satellites from the DeBo-3 barge at 1310 GMT on 7 October 2022. The satellites, Centispace-1 S5 and S6, with a mass of approximately...
India’s Mars probe, the Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), has ceased to function over eight years after its launch on 5 November 2013, according to recent reports. It is also over seven years since its post-launch design life, of 1.5 years, expired. Communications...
There are many space conferences every year, some specialising in military space hardware and applications, some aimed squarely at the commercial market, but when it comes to international space flight – and especially space agencies – there is perhaps only one...
