Satellite Launch

UK space industry mulls setback after satellite launch fails

US-based Virgin Orbit attempted its first international launch late Monday, using a modified jumbo jet to carry one if its rockets from Cornwall in southwestern England over the Atlantic Ocean.

Countdown for launch of 36 satellites on ISRO's heaviest rocket LVM3 begins tonight

The launch of 'LVM3 - M2/OneWeb India-1 Mission' is scheduled at 0007 hours IST on October 23 (midnight of October 22). OneWeb is a private satellite communications company

ISRO's first launch in 2022: PSLV-C52 successfully launches earth observation and two small satellites

ISRO said EOS-04 was placed into an intended sun synchronous polar orbit of 529 km altitude at 6.17 am and after injecting EOS-04, the two small satellites INSPIREsat-1 and INS-2TD were also put into their orbits

Astroscale signs contract with Rocket Lab to launch its orbital debris removal demo mission in 2023

The Electron rocket will launch the Active Debris Removal by Astroscale-Japan satellite for the first phase of JAXA's Commercial Removal of Debris Demonstration Project.

India is fast emerging as a world space hub for cost-effective satellites launches: Union Minister Jitendra Singh

World today is enamoured of Chandrayaan, Mars mission and upcoming Gaganyan," the Minister added.

Joint ISRO-NASA satellite NISER to launch in 2023: Jitendra Singh to Lok Sabha

A joint Earth Observation satellite, it will make global measurement of land surface changes using advanced radar imaging.

First reprogrammable commercial satellite launched into space on Ariane 5 rocket

The Eutelsat Quantum satelite can be reprogrammed while orbiting in a fixed position 35,000 kilometres and has a 15-year lifetime.

Virgin Orbit launches seven satellites from three different customers on 747 plane

The company plans three more test flights of its rocket ship this summer and fall before taking paying passengers next year.

Tunisia launches its first satellite Challenge-1 aboard Russian Soyuz rocket

This makes Tunisia the sixth African country to manufacture its own satellite and see it reach space.

Japan-UK private mission to demonstrate new space debris removal service on 22 March

The Space Surveillance Network is supposedly tracking over 28,000 pieces of debris, on top of the 3,600 working satellites in low-Earth orbit.