At 1825 GMT on 14 December China successfully launched its fourth Yaogan 36 triplet of the year. The mission saw a Long March 2D (CZ-2D) rocket lift-off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, China, and place the three satellites into their planned low Earth...
While the primary purpose of the SpaceX Starlink large low Earth orbit satellite constellation is a commercial communications service, as has been seen in Ukraine, it has a significant military application. And so SpaceX is now pivoting towards this as it hopes to...
A Russian Soyuz-2.1b rocket has put the Cosmos 2564 (Kosmos 2565) satellite into orbit. The codename indicates a military launch from the Plesetsk launch site at 2110 GMT on 30 November 2022. Lift off was at Given the likely intended final 900 km circular orbit (the...
US Space Systems Command has used an option to order three more GPS IIIF satellites from Lockheed Martin. The satellites are the GPS IIIF-18, -19 and -20. The value of the add-on contract is US$744 million. The original US$7.2 billlion GPS-IIIF procurement contract...
A Soyuz 2-1B Fregat launched Cosmos 2564 (Kosmos 2564) which is believed to be Glonass-M 61 – the last Glonass-M (Uragan-M) navigation satellite as part of the Russian military constellation with the Glonass K series now taking over. The launch took place from...
China successfully launched a Long March 2D/2 (CZ-2D/2) from Xichang Satellite Launch Centre, China at 1223 GMT on 27 November. The launch vehicle was carrying the Yaogan 36 Group 3 (Yaogan 36-03-A, -B and -C). Earlier Yaogan 36 groups were reconnaissance satellites...
