China’s Long March 11 rocket performed its second launch on Thursday morning from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center to lift a group of small satellites into orbit in support of a demonstration of pulsar navigation and Earth Observation.
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A Long March 3C rocket blasted off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center on Sunday in support of China’s existing Navigation Satellite Program, replenishing the Beidou-2 constellation to continue services until the follow-on system comes on line before the end of the decade.
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Press reports emerged on Monday claiming that Sunday’s successful launch of a Russian Glonass navigation satellite atop a Soyuz rocket was not without trouble.
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Russia’s Soyuz workhorse rocket lifted off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome at 8:44 UTC on Sunday, embarking on a mission to a 19,100-Kilometer orbit around Earth to deliver a Glonass-M navigation satellite
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Russia’s Soyuz workhorse rocket lifted off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome at 8:44 UTC on Sunday, embarking on a three-and-a-half-hour mission to a 19,100-Kilometer orbit around Earth to deliver a Glonass-M navigation satellite, replenishing the aging constellation as part of standard upkeep and maintenance.
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A Russian Soyuz rocket is set for liftoff on Sunday from the country’s primary military launch site at Plesetsk on a mission to replenish the Glonass navigation satellite system.
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A Soyuz rocket raced into the early morning skies over French Guiana on Tuesday carrying a pair of Galileo satellites into orbit in the continuing deployment of Europe’s Galileo Satellite Navigation System that is set to begin initial services by the end of the year.
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A Soyuz rocket raced into the early morning skies over French Guiana on Tuesday carrying a pair of Galileo satellites into orbit in the continuing deployment of Europe’s Navigation Satellite System that is set to begin initial services by the end of the year.
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A Soyuz rocket has been assembled for launch from the Guiana Space Center on Tuesday, set to lift the next two Galileo satellites into orbit in the continued deployment of Europe’s Navigation Satellite Constellation.
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SpaceX won a $82.7 million contract from the United States Air Force for the launch of the GPS 3-2 navigation satellite atop the company’s Falcon 9 rocket in May 2018
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China conducted its third orbital launch of the year on Tuesday, involving a Long March 3A rocket lifting off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center at 20:11 UTC carrying a Beidou navigation satellite to orbit.
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India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle lifts off from the Satish Dhawan Space Center at 10:31 UTC on Thursday, starting a 20-minute climb to a subsynchronous transfer orbit to deliver the sixth IRNSS navigation satellite.
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India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle blasted off on Thursday, lifting into orbit the IRNSS-1F satellite set to become a part of the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System.
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India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle is set for its second launch of the year on Thursday in the continued deployment of the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System.
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India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle is rolled from the Vehicle Assembly Building to the Second Launch Pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Center to set up for the launch of the IRNSS-1F navigation satellite.
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Russia became the third country to send a navigation satellite into orbit this week when a Soyuz rocket blasted off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome at 0:21 UTC on Sunday on a critical mission to replenish Russia’s Glonass Satellite Navigation Constellation.
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A Soyuz 2-1B rocket lifted off from the Plestsk Cosmodrome on Sunday, embarking on a three-and-a-half-hour mission to replenish the Glonass Navigation Satellite Constellation.
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