A Long March 3B-G2 (CZ-3B-G2) launch vehicle lifted off from the Xichang launch site in China at 1606 GMT on 3 March 2018. Aboard was a 5,250kg communcations satellite APSTAR 6C which was being launched under a construction and delivery to orbit contract for the Hong...
China has launched four imaging satellites OHS-2A, -2B, -2C, and -2D and one video satellite OVS-2A into low Earth orbit (LEO) for Zhuhai Orbital Control Engineering Ltd at 0442 GMT on 26 April 2018. The Long March 11 (CZ-11) launch vehicle was launched from the...
After US Congress decided to cancel the human-rating of the Delta IV upper-stage-derived ICPS (Interim Cryogenic Propulsion System) it looked as though the SLS Block 1 rocket (itself delayed until 2020) would only ever fly once on an unmanned flight called EM-1...
The Chinese authorities have released the cause of the failure of the Long March 5 flight at 1123 GMT on 2 July 2017, which crashed in the ocean 346 seconds after lift-off, destroying the experimental high throughput satellite Shi Jian 18. During the flight, a plume...
A Long March 4C rocket launch vehicle successfully lifted off from the Jiuquan launch site in Inner Mongolia in China at 0425 GMT on 10 April 2018. Four satellites were being carried into low Earth orbit. Of the four spacecraft carried, three were classed as Yaogan...
Those fearful of the miniscule risk of being hit by space debris from the re-entering Tiangong-1 had nothing to fear.The uncontrolled re-entry of the Chinese mini-space station occurred at 0016 GMT on 2 April 2018 over the South Pacific. Re-entry experts have put the...
