A Long March 2D/2 (CZ-2D/2) rocket, built by SAST, carried 41 Jilin-1 satellites into LEO from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, China, after lifting off at 0530 GMT on 15 June. The event marked the most satellites launched at one time by a Chinese rocket. Onboard...
At 1050 GMT on 30 March a Long March 2D/2 (CZ-2D/2) rocket lifted-off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, China, carrying four satellites. The satellites it carried were reportedly SAR microsatellites built for a company identified as Piesat or Aerospace Hongtu....
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral, USA at 2101 GMT on 29 March. The vehicle carried a payload of 56 Starlink Group 5-10 satellites. All of the satellites onboard were deployed around 65 minutes after lift off, as planned. While the second...
Arianespace has won a contract for up to three Vega C launches for IRIDE, the Italian government’s Earth observation constellation. The European Space Agency (ESA), acting on behalf of the Italian government, signed a contract with the French company for at least two...
Seradata Data Manager Matt Wilson dissects how some of the biggest names in regional GEO operators really feel about the rise of low Earth orbit (LEO) constellations The chief execs of the heavyweight regional GEO operators sat down to discuss the advance of low Earth...
For the Tuesday opening keynote talk at the SATELLITE 2023 show in Washington DC, Dave Limp, the Senior Vice President of devices & services at Project Kuiper, gave attendees an update on the progress of the Amazon LEO constellation. He confirmed that the first...
