On 21 February, Russia’s President Putin ordered troops and tanks into disputed territories of Donetsk and Luhansk for “peacekeeping”, which was regarded by many as an act of war. This became certain when Russian troops and T-72 and T-90 tanks, supported by the...
Russia successfully launched a Soyuz 2-1A/Fregat vehicle from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Northern Russia at 0700 GMT on 5 February 2022. The launch vehicle carried a satellite codenamed Cosmos 2553. This is believed to be the first Neitron, a new type of radar...
The Vandenberg launch site in California hosted the launch of yet another secret satellite payload for the US National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). This time the mission was dubbed NRO L-87 and it was launched by a SpaceX Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 launch vehicle at 2027...
The Boeing/Lockheed Martin-owned launch provider, the United Launch Alliance (ULA), which mainly specialises in US military launches, successfully launched the first Atlas 511 vehicle from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, USA, at 1900 GMT on 21 January....
A Chinese Long March 2D (CZ-2D) rocket built by SAST (Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology) and operated by the quasi-military CASC (China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp) put Shiyan-13 – officially a technology test satellite – into orbit at...
The Virgin Orbit launch provider was celebrating its third launch success in a row of its air-launched LauncherOne rocket. The “Stage Zero” Boeing 747 (Cosmic Girl) carrier aircraft, with the LaunchOne rocket slung under the port wing, took off from the...
