While action film actor Tom Cruise has his detractors, you cannot say he is not successful. Recently starring in the Top Gun – Maverick, the long awaited successor to the Top Gun (1986) film that originally made him a major star, he is credited with bringing...
The Chinese sent 14 new satellites into orbit on a Long March-2D/2 (CZ-2D/2) rocket at 0314 GMT on 15 January. The launch took place from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in the Shanxi Province of north China. Among the 14 satellites were high-resolution optical...
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy Block 5 (px) rocket successfully lifted off from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA at 2256 GMT on 15 January 2023. Aboard the flight dubbed USSF-66 for the US Space Force were two military spacecraft heading to an initial parking orbit, and then...
Events on the International Space Station have been more muted after the excitement of the Soyuz MS-22 coolant leak. On 6 January three cubesats were released. SURYASAT-1, OPTIMAL-1 and HSKSAT-1 which were carried on the J-SSOD #24 deployer and was extracted from the...
A Long March 2D (CZ-2D) rocket lifted off from Jiuquan at 0700 GMT on 13 January 2023. Aboard were three satellites. The primary payload was the Yaogan-37 remote sensing satellite. The other satellites aboard were Shiyan-22A and Shiyan-22B which are thought to have a...
China’s Long March 2C/3 (CZ-2C/3) rocket has been modified with a additional kick stage attached to the satellite to launch the small – at least small for a communications satellite – 1,800 kg APSTAR-6E HTS (High Throughput Satellite) on its way to a...
