A Chinese Long March 3B/YZ-1 successfully launched the BEIDOU-3 M13 and BEIDOU-3 M14 satellites into Medium Earth Orbit at 1407 GMT on 19 September from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre, Sichuan Province, China. The one metric ton satellites were built by the SECM...
While the USA frets about the activities of certain Russian inspection satellites, and France frets about the activities of certain Russian eavesdropping satellites another satellite in orbit has caused raised eyebrows amongst orbital analysts. And this one is...
The small satellite manufacturing subsidiary of Airbus Defence and Space, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL), celebrated the successful launch of two satellites, NovaSAR-1, a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite able to image the earth at night or through...
China launched the HAIYANG 1C satellite at 0315 GMT on 7 September on a Long March 2C launch vehicle from Taiyuan Satellite Launching Centre in China. The satellite will be used to monitor oceanic pollution, resource investigation, construction of bayou and ports and...
A Long March 3B/YZ-1 (CZ-3B/YZ-1) rocket was successfully launched from the Xichang launch site at 2352 GMT on 24 August 2018. The launch carried two Beidou navigation satellites, Beidou-3 M11-S and Beidou-3 M12-S, into a 55 degree inclined Medium Earth Orbit 21,000...
While the original space race between superpowers – the USA and Soviet Union during the 1960s – was effectively ended with NASA’s successful Apollo Moon landings (1969-1972), a new “Great Space Race” has begun again, and this time more nations are...
