ExPace’s Kuaizhou-1A launches 5G satellite
Today, Chinese rocket manufacturer launched its solid-fuel vehicle Kuaizhou-1A, carrying with it Yinhe-1 a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) communication satellite for China's GalaxySpace. The launch took place at Jiuquan Satellite Launch...
ISRO 2020: What to look out for in India’s space programme
On New Year’s Day, the Chairman of India’s space agency
ISRO, K. Sivan, held a press conference to make public the agency’s
accomplishments of 2019 and share its plans for 2020. Here are...
Long March 5 resumes launches with China’s heaviest satellite
On 27 December 2019, China's largest rocket, the Long March 5, resumed operations after its launch failure in July 2017. The latest launch marked the 3rd flight of the rocket, and...
SpaceX launches Singapore’s Kacific1/Japan’s JCSAT-18
On Monday, December 16, at 7:10 p.m. EST, SpaceX's Falcon 9 launched JCSAT-18/Kacific1 from its launch site at Cape Canaveral, deploying the satellite approximately 33 minutes after liftoff.
The satellite, manufactured by...
Insights into ISRO’s launches and missions of 2019
India’s
Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has ended the year 2019 with a successful
launch of the RISAT-2BR1 satellite. During this PSLV-C 48 mission nine foreign
satellites were also launched under a commercial arrangement with...
Singapore-based SpaceChain sends blockchain payload to the ISS
SpaceChain, a Singapore-headquartered space blockchain organization, announced that its blockchain hardware wallet technology was launched to the International Space Station (ISS), as part of SpaceX's CRS-19 commercial resupply service mission.
The...
Rocket Lab conducts final launch of 2019, deploys 7 sats
On 6 December 2019, at 8:18 am UTC, launch provider Rocket Lab conducted its 10th mission - and the final one of 2019 - from its launch site at New...
ISRO’s PSLV launches Cartosat-3
Today, at approximately 9:28 am IST (+5:30 UTC), India's space agency ISRO launched Earth Observation satellite Cartosat-3, along with 12 of Planet's Flock cubesats and Analytical Space's Meshbed cubesat. The launch...
Arianespace to launch Malaysia’s MEASAT-3d in 2021
Malaysian telecommunications company MEASAT will launch its latest satellite, MEASAT-3d, aboard Arianespace's heavy lift launcher, Ariane 5. The Airbus-built satellite will be launched in 2021 from Arianespace's launch site at Kourou,...
China completes Mars lander collision avoidance test
China has announced the completion of its Mars lander collision avoidance test, and this is also the first time China has made public the progress of its Mars mission spacecraft. ...