Saturday, July 11th, 2015
July 10, 2015—Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has confirmed the launch on 10 July 2015 of three 1-metre resolution optical Earth Observation satellites that will form the DMC3/TripleSat Constellation. The satellites were placed into a 651km sun-synchronous...
Monday, July 7th, 2014
Singapore launched its first nano- satellite VELOX-I via a Indian space rocket on Monday. The satellite, which weighs just 4.28 kilograms, is equipped with a camera sensor that is radiation-resistant, and extendable lenses to take higher-resolution photographs...
Monday, September 10th, 2012
Built by Astrium, Europe’s leading space technology company, the SPOT 6 Earth observation satellite has been successfully launched by a PSLV launcher from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in India. It will join in orbit Pléiades 1A, the very high resolution...
Monday, June 18th, 2012
It might not have been a giant step for mankind, but the launch Saturday of a piloted space capsule to dock with China's space station prototype marked the country's breakthrough into the exclusive club once made up...
