News & Events

The United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy carrying the NROL-71 mission will launch no earlier than Sunday, 6 January 2019. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018122901

The preparation and holding of planned launches of the Russian Soyuz-2 rockets at Baikonur Cosmodrome will face technical difficulties in 2020, a source in the aerospace industry was quoted as saying by Sputnik. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018122902

China’s BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) has started to provide global service, according to BDS Spokesperson Ran Chengqi. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018122903

Rocket: Soyuz-2.1a/Fregat; Payload: Kanopus-V No. 5, Kanopus-V No. 6, 26 small satellites; Date: 27 December 2018, 0207 UTC; Launch site: Vostochny, Russia. In accordance with the flight programme, the Fregat upper stage injected primary and piggyback payload satellites into low-Earth orbit. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018122700

Rocket: Chang Zheng 3C/G2; Payload: Tongxin Jishu Shiyan Weixing 3 (TJSW-3, TJS-3); Date: 24 December 2018, 1653 UTC; Launch site: Xichang Satellite Launch Center, China. State media confirmed success of the launch 40 minutes later via social media, with the satellite inserted into geostationary transfer orbit. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018122500

Rocket: Proton M/Briz-M; Payload: Blagovest No.13L [Kosmos-2533]; Date: 21 December 2018, 0020 UTC; Launch site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. "The upper stage of the Proton-M rocket, comprising the Briz-M booster and the Russian Defense Ministry’s spacecraft, separated as scheduled, at 03:30 Moscow time [0030 UTC]," the Defense Ministry said. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018122200

Rocket: Chang Zheng 11; Payload: Hongyun-1; Date: 21 December 2018, 2351 UTC; Launch site: Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre, China. The satellite was deployed into a Sun-synchronous orbit with an altitude of around 500 kilometres. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018122201

The launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the first GPS III satellite for the U.S. Air Force on 22 December has been delayed for 24 hours. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018122202

GomSpace has signed a EUR300,000 development contract with ESA for the initiation of a new GOMX-5 satellite mission to demonstrate new nanosatellite capabilities for the next generation of constellations requiring high speed communications links and high levels of manoeuvrability. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018122203