The death of former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on 30 August at the age of 91 prompted tributes to him from around the world in his role as a peacemaker and promoter of democratic freedoms during the Cold War. After Leonid Breznev finally died, followed by short...
China has reportedly conducted two launches within just two hours of each other during the morning of 6 September, from different launch sites. The first mission saw a Kuaizhou-1A light launch vehicle lift-off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre at 0224 GMT and...
Details are sketchy but during late August, China mounted a launch of its suborbital/fractional orbital spaceplane from the Jiuquan launch site in the Gobi Desert. According to Space News (Andrew Jones) the flight took place on 26 August. This would make the second...
The Chinese successfully launched a Long March 2D (CZ-2D) vehicle from Xichang Satellite Launch Center, China at 1737 GMT on 19 August 2022. The vehicle was carrying the fourth Yaogan 35 triplet – the third such group launched this year – of military...
Amid a flurry of orbital launches, a human suborbital flight and some short range ballistic missile flights over Taiwan, one mysterious launch – from the Jiuquan launch site in China took place at 0402 GMT on 4 August – still caught the attention of...
A ULA Atlas V 421 rocket has carried the SBIRS GEO-6 missile early warning satellite into Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO) following its launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida. In addition to using the new RL10C-1-1 engine on the Centaur stage, this uprated version of...
