In a award which was received in October but only made public on 10 December, Lockheed Martin gets the go ahead for the second pair of GPS 3F satellites. This construction contract is valued at US$511 million for the two units. Lockheed Martin was selected as the...
The NRO L-44 (ORION 10) spacecraft of the US National Reconnaissance Office, was finally launched by an upgraded Delta IV Heavy rocket at 0109 GMT on 11 December 2020. The launch, operated by the United Launch Alliance (ULA) took place from Pad 37B at Cape Canaveral,...
At 0114 GMT on 3 December 2020 a Russian Soyuz 2-1b/Fregat launch vehicle was launched from the Plesetsk launch site in Northern Russia. The three main payloads were Gonets-M store forward communications satellites. There was one other satellite aboard – a...
Following delays the Falcon Eye 2 mission has been launched by a Soyuz ST-A Fregat-M rocket from Kourou, French Guiana. Lift-off occurred at 0133 GMT, 2 December. The satellite was deployed into its 610 km, sun-synchronous low Earth orbit at approximately T+59...
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) successfully launched an H-IIA (H-2A 202) rocket carrying the Japanese Data Relay Satellite (JDRS-1) to GEO from the Tanegashima Space Center, Kyushu, Japan, at 0725 GMT on 29 November. The satellite’s main role is to relay...
The US National Reconnaissance Office’s NRO L-101 mission was launched successfully from the SLC-41 pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 2232 GMT on 13 November using a ULA Atlas V vehicle. The spacecraft, which remains secret, was launched into a...
