Thursday, October 18th, 2012
The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has selected Arianespace to launch its GSAT 7 and INSAT 3D satellites in the second quarter of 2013 as part of a contract that also includes two more launch options, Arianespace announced Oct. 17. Arianespace will...
Thursday, October 18th, 2012
A new satellite for China's homegrown Beidou navigation system will be launched at the end of October to join 15 satellites already in orbit, the Beijing News reported on Monday. The new satellite will complete a network that...
Saturday, September 29th, 2012
China has launched a second satellite built for Venezuela's government. The remote sensing satellite soared into orbit atop a rocket from the northwestern Chinese province of Gansu. The launch was shown live on Venezuelan TV on Friday night. Venezuelan...
Thursday, September 13th, 2012
Japan's Marubeni Aerospace Corp. has been conducting a feasibility study for the Myanmar government this year on the satellite launch, a company official said. If the launch goes ahead, the satellite will be used by the meteorology and...
Sunday, July 22nd, 2012
Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) today announced the successful launch of exactView-1 at UTC 06:41:39 into a sun synchronous polar orbit of 800km by a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Tuesday, May 29th, 2012
Residents of a remote Chinese village became unwitting participants in China’s much-vaunted space program over the weekend when debris from a recently launched carrier rocket took out a 10 kilovolt (kv) power line and damaged several houses....
Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
Japan plans to launch four satellites into space this week, including a South Korean one that is its first payload for a foreign customer. The HII-A rocket carrying the satellites will launch Friday from a remote pad...
Friday, May 11th, 2012
As the rest of the world laments the loss of earth observation capacity -- with the recent report of a U.S. decline from 23 satellites to just six by 2020 and the confirmed loss of Europe's Envisat...
Sunday, May 6th, 2012
China successfully launched its Tianhui I-02 mapping satellite from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gansu province at 3:10 p.m. Sunday. The satellite, which was launched using a Long March 2-D carrier rocket, has entered...
