News & Events

Gilmour Space Technologies, Australia, has signed a long-term collaboration and supply agreement with RUAG Space. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018112502

New launch dates have been announced for SpaceX’s Falcon 9 and ULA’s Delta IV Heavy. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018112300

The launch of the third Blagovest military communications satellite is planned for 21 December from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, a source in the domestic space industry was quoted as saying by TASS. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018112301

China and Brazil will launch a new Earth resource satellite next year, according to an official with the China National Space Administration. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018112302

Rocket: Vega; Payload: MOHAMMED VI-B; Date: 21 November 2018, 0142 UTC; Launch site: Kourou, French Guiana. The mission – which lasted 55 minutes from lift-off to payload separation – placed its passenger into a Sun-synchronous orbit. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018112100

Rocket: Chang Zheng 2D; Payload: Shiyan-6 [SY-6], four nanosatellites; Date: 19 November 2018, 2340 UTC; Launch site: Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China. The satellites have successfully entered their preset orbit, according to the centre. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018112000

The launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 carrying the first Lockheed Martin-built Global Positioning Systems (GPS) III satellite has been re-scheduled from 15 December to 18 December due to launch range accommodations for a NASA re-supply mission to the International Space Station on 4 December. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018112001

As part of the EU project SMILE (Small Innovative Launcher for Europe), researchers from the Institute of Structures and Design at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) have developed a reusable rocket engine especially for launching small satellites, and have performed an initial series of successful trials on a test…

Today, on 20 November the International Space Station (ISS) is celebrating its 20th anniversary. Work on the ISS begun as early as 1993-1994, and it achieved orbit in 1998 with the successful launch of the first module, Functional Cargo Block (FGB) Zarya ("Sunrise"). http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018112003

Rocket: Chang Zheng 3B/YZ-1; Payload: Beidou-3M17, Beidou-3M18 [Beidou-42, Beidou-43]; Date: 19 November 2018 UTC; Launch site:Xichang Satellite Launch Center, China. The satellites entered a medium Earth orbit more than three hours later. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2018111900