December 19th, 2018 by
Rocket: GSLV Mk. II; Payload: GSAT-7A; Date: 19 December 2018, 1040 UTC; Launch site: Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC), Sriharikota, India. About 19 minutes after lift-off, GSAT-7A was injected into a supersynchronous Transfer Orbit of 170.8 km x 39,127 km, which is very close to the intended orbit.
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December 19th, 2018 by
Rocket: Soyuz ST-B; Payload: CSO-1; Date: 19 December 2018, 1637 UTC; Launch site: Sinnamary, French Guiana. The rocket delivered the CSO-1 spacecraft passenger (which had a mass at launch of 3,566 kg) into an 800-km Sun-synchronous orbit.
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December 19th, 2018 by
A sensor issue on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is still delaying the launch of a new GPS III navigation satellite for the U.S. Air Force from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
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December 19th, 2018 by
Spaceflight announced it was awarded the contract to provide launch services for INPE, Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (in Portuguese: Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais), the research unit of the Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovation and Communications.
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