Following a record-breaking 2018 that saw China launch 39 orbital mission, the Chinese have kicked off the new year by orbiting a new communications satellite with possible military applications. Zhongxing-2D (or Chinasat-2D) was launched at 17:05 UTC on Thursday – from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center using a Long March-3B/G3 from the LC2 Launch Complex.
An international planetary defense mission involving NASA and ESA will now include two CubeSats. APEX (Asteroid Prospection…
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Launch activities at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center for 2018 ended with the launch of…
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Twenty-five years ago today, arguably the most important Space Shuttle mission of the 1990s landed…
A unique spacewalk was conducted on Tuesday, as two Russian cosmonauts examined a hole that…
SpaceX’s CRS-16 resupply mission to the International Space Station has been grappled by Canadarm2 –…
China launched another orbital mission from its Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center using a Long March-2D…
Ariane 5 returned to action on Tuesday with another dual passenger launch this time with…
On December 3, 2018, after a journey that started on September 8, 2016, with a…
The 100th orbital launch of 2018, Roscosmos’ Soyuz MS-11 lofted three international crewmembers from the…
A Russian Rokot launch vehicle – with a Briz-KM Upper Stage – has launched from…
Three days after a spectacularly successful landing on the surface of Mars, the InSight lander,…