Satellite News

Rocket: Unha 3 [Taepodong 3, Kwangmyongsong?]; Payload: Kwangmyongsong-4; Date: 7 February 2016, 0030 UTC; Launch site: Sohae Space Center, North Korea. The satellite separated from the third stage at 0039 UTC into a 465 km x 502 km x 97.5 degrees orbit.

Rocket: Soyuz-2-1b/Fregat; Payload: GLONASS-M No. 51 [Kosmos-2514]; Date: 7 February 2016, 0021 UTC; Launch site: Plesetsk, Russia. The navigation satellite was deployed into a 19,132 km x 19,158 km x 64.8 degrees orbit approx. four hours after lift-off as planned.