It was a busy “Good Friday” for China, which launched not one, but two rockets within hours of each other on 15 April 2022. Long March 3B-G2 (CZ-3B-G2) was the first of the two. It was successfully launched into geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) at 1205...
South Korea, through its Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA), confirmed that it had contracted SpaceX to launch the five satellites of its military “425 project” on 11 April. The deal outlines that all five units will be launched by 2025 with...
The European Space Agency (ESA) has signed a launch contract on behalf of the European Union with French satellite launch provider Arianespace for the launch of the third Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite. The Sentinel-1C radar satellite, which weighs in at around 2.3...
The Satellite Applications Catapult (Catapult), a British innovation and technology company, has contracted with launch provider Virgin Orbit to include one of its satellites on a launch planned for later this year. The contract, announced on 6 April, covers the...
At 2347 GMT on 6 April 2022, China launched a Long March 4C from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center (JSLC). Aboard the launch was the Gaofen 3-03 radar satellite which was placed into a near polar sun-synchronous low Earth orbit of 744 x 738 km at an inclination of...
The UK government’s Defence Equipment and Support arm has signed a GB£22 million (US$28.8 million) contract on behalf of UK Space Command with the Airbus DS-owned small satellite manufacturer Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) for the construction of a satellite...
