Satellite Launching

China launched an experiment satellite onboard the Tianzhou-6 cargo craft on Wednesday, according to the satellite’s developer Dalian University of Technology. The satellite is a high-resolution Earth remote sensing CubeSat that weighs 17 kg. It will serve to verify a series of innovative technologies such as high-resolution remote sensing imaging, a highly reliable domestic OpenHarmony ...

NASA and Rocket Lab launched two of the agency’s CubeSats on Sunday to study tropical cyclones with greater frequency than existing satellites, according to an agency announcement. The CubeSats were launched on an Electron Rocket from Rocket Lab’s Launch Complex in New Zealand at 9pm EDT on Sunday—or 1pm NZST on Monday. The launch was ...

Die Stadtwerke Waldkirchen haben sich dem Infrest Leitungsauskunftsportal angeschlossen. Durch die direkte Anbindung an das unternehmenseigene Geoinformationssystem (GIS) können die über das Infrest-Portal eingehenden Leitungsanfragen vollautomatisch abgewickelt werden. Die über das Infrest Portal eingehenden Anfragen werden dabei über eine standardisierte WMS (WebMapService) Schnittstelle direkt in das Geoinformationssystem (GIS) der Stadtwerke weitergeleitet. Die dort automatisch erzeugten ...

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will launch the Singaporean Earth Observation satellite TeLEOS-02 on Saturday, April 22. The launch will take place at 2.19 pm from the first launch pad at Sriharikota. The satellite on board will be TeLEOS 2—a 750kg earth observation satellite that has synthetic aperture radar capable of providing data in ...

O VCUB1, o primeiro nanossatélite de alto desempenho desenvolvido pela indústria nacional, foi lançado na madrugada deste sábado (15), às 3h48 (horário de Brasília), a partir da base de Vandenberg, no estado da Califórnia, nos Estados Unidos, a bordo do foguete Falcon 9 da SpaceX, que cumpriu a missão Transporter-7. Produzido pela Visiona Tecnologia Espacial, ...

Kenya launched its first operational earth observation satellite on Saturday onboard a SpaceX rocket from the United States. The satellite, developed by nine Kenyan engineers, will collect agricultural and environmental data, including on floods, drought, and wildfires, that authorities plan to use for disaster management and to combat food insecurity. “We have the challenges that ...

Dubai [Abu Dhabi] April 15, (ANI/WAM): Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has successfully launched its second nanosatellite, DEWA SAT-2, aboard SpaceX ‘s Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, USA. The launch of DEWA SAT-2 underlines ‘s leadership in using space technologies to improve the operations, maintenance and planning of electricity ...

SpaceX scrubbed its 24th time this year with the Transporter-7 rideshare mission from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base due to weather constraints. The mission will try again on Friday at 11:47 PM PDT (06:47 UTC on April 15). On this flight, the launch integrators with ports on the payload stack ...

South Korea plans to conduct its first launch of a commercial-grade satellite aboard a domestically built rocket next month as part of its space development program, officials said Tuesday. In June last year, South Korea conducted its first satellite launch using the Nuri rocket. That launch involved what South Korean officials called a “performance verification” ...

IMECE, our first high-resolution observation satellite produced with domestic and national means, will be launched into orbit on April 11. IMECE is a remote sensing satellite produced with local resources of up to 60% by the Space Technologies Research Institute of Türkiye’s Scientific and Technological Research Council (TUBITAK). With the inauguration of IMECE, Türkiye will, ...

China launched a Long March-2D carrier rocket into space on Thursday evening carrying a wheel-like formation of four remote sensing satellites, the first formation of its kind in the world. The satellites of the PIESAT-1 constellation were launched at 6:50 p.m. (Beijing Time) from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern China’s Shanxi Province, and ...

The Luojia-3 01 satellite has completed several technical tests, and its multi-mode intelligent remote sensing service capability has reached the expected target, according to Wuhan University. Luojia-3 01 is an internet-intelligent remote-sensing scientific experiment satellite, mainly developed by Wuhan University and launched by a Long March-2D rocket on Jan. 15. It adopts the in-orbit high-rate ...

Bluesky Geospatial Ltd. has announced the launch of its MetroVista 3D aerial mapping program in the United States. The service employs a hybrid imaging-LiDAR airborne sensor to capture highly detailed 3D data, including 360-degree views of buildings and street-level features, in urban areas for use in creating digital twins, visualizations, and simulations. Bluesky’s sister company, ...

Indian Space Research Organisation will be making its second attempt to launch the Small Satellite Launch Vehicle. This second development flight — SSLV-D2 — will be launched from Sriharikota tomorrow at 9.18 a.m. SSLV-D2 will inject three satellites, namely EOS-07, Janus-1 and AzaadiSAT-2 into a 450 kilometre circular orbit during its 15-minute flight. Among the ...

SpaceX launched its fourth mission of the year, a GPS-III satellite for the US Space Force, on Wednesday, Jan. 18. The launch saw a Falcon 9 rocket lift off from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 7:24 EST (12:24 UTC). The payload for this mission is Global Positioning System ...

The rocket was set to make history, carrying satellites on what would be the first-ever orbital launch from the U.K. on Monday night. But Virgin Orbit says its LauncherOne rocket “experienced an anomaly” just before it could deliver its payload, and the craft was lost. Virgin Orbit says it’s reviewing the flight data to determine ...

Impulsado por la Generalitat y el Instituto de Estudios Espaciales de Cataluña (IEEC) y desarrollado por la empresa catalana Open Cosmos, Menut, un CubeSat de seis unidades y menos de 10 kilogramos de peso fue lanzado este martes entre las 114 cargas útiles a bordo de la misión de viaje compartido Transporter-6 de SpaceX. Menut ...

Dragonfly Aerospace is launching its first Imaging satellite today, EOS SAT-1. The satellite, manufactured entirely by Dragonfly Aerospace in Stellenbosch, South Africa, is the world’s first agriculture-focused satellite constellation. EOS SAT-1 will provide the agriculture and forestry industry with efficient data to advance sustainable practices and ensure profitability. In addition, the satellite will directly affect ...

China has sent a new remote sensing satellite into space from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the southwestern province of Sichuan. The satellite, Yaogan-36, was launched by a Long March-2D carrier rocket at 2:25 a.m. (Beijing Time) on Thursday, and entered its planned orbit successfully. The launch was the 455th flight mission of the ...

Hong Kong Aerospace Technology Group Limited announced last Friday 9 December 2022, two satellites under Golden Bauhinia No. 1 05/06 have been launched from the sea launch platform in the Yellow Sea area, China, using the Jielong — 3 (Y1) carrier rocket which marked its first sea hot launch. Both of Golden Bauhinia No. 1 ...

China sent a new remote sensing satellite into space from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China’s Shanxi Province at 2:31 a.m. Friday (Beijing Time). The satellite, Gaofen-5 01A, was launched aboard a Long March-2D rocket and entered its planned orbit successfully. It is a hyperspectral satellite that will be used for remote sensing ...

At 15:17 UTC on Nov. 28, a Soyuz-2.1b launched from Site 43/3 at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, carrying the final GLONASS-M satellite to orbit, designated Kosmos-2564. This is the first of two planned launches from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in just three days, with a classified payload scheduled to launch onboard a Soyuz-2.1a on Wednesday, Nov. 30. ...

China sent a new remote-sensing satellite of the Yaogan-34 series into space from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Tuesday morning, marking the launch of the100th satellite developed by the 509th Research Institute of the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology. It will mainly be used in land resources surveys and disaster prevention. ...

India will launch the Oceansat-3 satellite on November 26, Earth Sciences Minister Jitendra Singh said on Tuesday. Singh said the Ministry of Earth Sciences has taken the notion of ‘marine surveillance’ to a new level, where space applications are also being deployed to share the valuable inputs with the security agencies, an official statement said. ...

Russia launched its Soyuz-2.1b rocket carrying the GLONASS-K navigation system on Monday from a northern cosmodrome, the Interfax news agency reported, citing the defence ministry. “Combat crews of the Space Forces …. successfully launched a Soyuz-2.1b medium-class launch vehicle with space navigation GLONASS-K system,” the agency cited the ministry as saying. The GLONASS-K satellite lifted ...

South Korea’s science ministry plans to set aside 47.2 billion won ($32.9 million) in next year’s budget to launch two satellites that have been left grounded because of Western sanctions on Russia over the war in Ukraine. Once the requested budget is endorsed by congress, the ministry will nix the existing launch contracts with Russia ...

China sent a new remote sensing satellite into space from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the southwestern province of Sichuan on Monday. The satellite, Yaogan-36, was launched by a Long March-2D carrier rocket at 9:38 p.m. (Beijing Time) and has entered the planned orbit successfully. This was the 439th flight mission of the Long ...

China launched a group of three Yaogan-35 05 satellites atop a Long March-2D carrier rocket at 12:19 p.m. Beijing Time from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China’s Sichuan Province on Tuesday, according to China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation. The remote sensing satellites entered preset orbit, which signaled the launch was a success. ...

China has carried out its ninth orbital mission within the last 30 days, sending 16 new commercial satellites into orbit with a Long March 6 rocket. The Long March 6 rocket lifted off from Taiyuan, north China, on Wednesday (Aug. 10) at 12:50 a.m. EDT (0450 GMT, 12:50 p.m. local time), the China Aerospace Science ...

“In cooperation with Russia, the Khayyam satellite will be launched next week from the Baikonur space station in Kazakhstan by a Soyuz satellite carrier,” the Iranian space agency said late on Wednesday. The satellite, apparently named after 11th-12th century Persian polymath Omar Khayyam, aims to “monitor the country’s borders”, enhance agricultural productivity and monitor water ...