Friday, February 7th, 2014
India will launch four foreign satellites in 2014-15 in the Earth's lower orbit, using its workhorse polar rocket, an Indian space agency official said Friday. The customers are DMC International Imaging, a subsidiary of the Surrey Satellite...
Wednesday, September 25th, 2013
A satellite for natural disaster monitoring was successfully launched into orbit at 12:37 p.m. Wednesday, China's Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center has announced. The satellite Kuaizhou I, or speedy vessel I, will be used to monitor natural disasters...
Tuesday, September 3rd, 2013
A Long March-4C rocket carrying the Yaogan-17 satellite, blasted off from the Satellite Launch Center in Jiuquan, northwest China's Gansu Province on Monday morning. The satellite successfully reached its target orbit. The Yaogan-17 is mainly intended for...
Saturday, August 24th, 2013
South Korea's Kompsat-5 Earth observation satellite was successfully launched today from the Dombarovsky Launch Site, Yasny, in Russia. Thales Alenia Space developed the synthetic aperture radar (SAR) payload system under contract to the Korea Aerospace Research Institute...
Tuesday, May 7th, 2013
The second Vega rocket flight has successfully launched the Vietnamese satellite VNREDSat-1, built by Astrium. The small Vega rocket took off from the European Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana, at 02:06 GMT on 7 May (03:06 BST,...
Tuesday, April 30th, 2013
Vietnam's first Earth observation satellite is set for launch Friday by French aerospace company Astrium under a 2010 contract. The VNREDSat-1, developed and built by Astrium, is an optical satellite capable of taking images of the Earth...
Saturday, April 27th, 2013
China sent high-definition earth observation satellite "Gaofen 1" into space shortly after noon on Friday, marking the start of a program that will substantially improve its capabilities in disaster relief, resources and environment survey.The satellite unfolded its...
Monday, February 25th, 2013
STRaND-1, a nanosatellite carrying a smartphone, has successfully launched into Space from India today. STRaND-1 will fly the world's first smartphone in orbit and is...
