At the northernmost edges of the UK lies Unst, one of the North Isles of the Shetland Islands. The quiet island off the Northeast of the Scottish Mainland only has a population of 632. And yet, it will soon be home to a main plank of the UK space effort, the SaxaVord...
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, USA, at 1739 GMT on 22 July. The vehicle was carrying 46 Starlinks of Group 3-2 which were being placed into the third...
The US Space Development agency has awarded two contracts to build 28 infra-red wide-field-of-view tracking satellites for its new Tracking Layer constellation, aimed at detecting and tracking ballistic and manoeuvring hypersonic missile flights. The Tracking Layer...
China launched a Long March 2C/3 (CZ-2C/3) vehicle from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre, China at 2257 GMT on 15 July 2022. The vehicle carried SuperView Neo 2-01 and 2-02 (aka Siwei Gaojing 3 and 4), a pair of Earth observation satellites, to a Sun-Synchronous low...
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral, USA at 1420 GMT on 17 July 2022. The vehicle was carrying 53 Starlink satellites as part of the Group 4-22 set for the Starlink constellation. The B1051 reusable first stage, flying on...
China successfully launched Tianlian 2-03, its data relay communications satellite, at 1630 GMT on 12 July. The satellite was onboard the Long March 3B/E (CZ-3B/E) rocket, which was launched from Xichang Satellite Launch Centre, China. Tianlian 2-03 is the seventh...
