Quoting the Iranian Ministry of Defence, Iran’s Mehr news agency website has reported that a Simorgh (Safir 2A) rocket has successfully launched three payloads – but the success is disputed. The payloads – assumed to be small satellites – were announced as...
A Long March 7A (CZ-7A) rocket launched a pair of Shiyan 12 satellies, Shiyan 12-01 and Shiyan 12-02 on a mission dubbed HOTS (High Orbit Test Satellite) into a geosynchronous transfer orbit. The launch occurred from the Wenchang satellite launch centre, Hainan Island...
Virgin Orbit has become the “preferred” launch provider of Horizon Technologies (“Horizon”), the UK-based provider of satellite based Maritime Domain Awareness (“MDA”) through its planned AMBER signals intelligence cubesat constellation offering services...
China attempted to launch a Kuaizhou-1A vehicle carrying the GeeSat 1A and 1B satellites at 0200 GMT on 15 December from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in China. It was reported that the vehicle suffered abnormal performance during the launch, which failed. The...
China successfully launched a Long March 4B vehicle at 0011 GMT on 10 December 2021 from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in China. The launch vehicle was carrying the Shi Jian 6-05A and 6-05B satellites. While the satellites were announced as officially being used...
A ULA operated Atlas V 551 rocket successfully launched the US Space Force STP 3 mission which involved the STPSAT-6 technology test satellite. The launch used five GEM-63 solid rocket boosters as well as a single standard RL10C-1 engine on the Centaur upper stage....
