A Long March 2D/2 rocket lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China, at 1522 GMT, 21 December. The mission’s primary payload was the TANSAT, atmospheric carbon dioxide-monitoring minisatellite. Along with TANSAT there were reportedly three other...
The Japanese space agency JAXA has launched a new version of its Epsilon launch vehicle called Epsilon 2 which uses upgraded second and third stages. The launch took place from Kagoshima (Uchinora Space Centre) at 1100 GMT on 20 December. On board was a satellite...
Certain dictatorships and pseudo-democracies around the world are infamous for their control of public news and data, while also firing those employees that do not toe “the party line” on such information. For example, Turkey’s own military space...
China has launched its newest Feng Yun series weather satellite, Feng Yun 4A, into orbit using a Long March 3B/G2 rocket flying from the Xichang launch base at 1642 GMT on 10 December 2016. The Feng Yun 4 series is an improved spacecraft design over the previous...
The launch contract to launch the Surface Water & Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission has been awarded by NASA to SpaceX. The launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 will fly from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California in April 2021. The contracted price of the launch is...
Astronomers have advised that the Moon will appear larger and brighter in the sky than normal as its orbit will takes it to closest distance from Earth since 1948. The moon had its closest perigee at 356,509 km (221,524 miles) at 1121 GMT on the morning of 14 November...
