Andy Law
19 posts
Tiantong-1-03 | Long March 3B/E
The China Aerospace and Science Technology Corporation (CASC) will launch the Tiantong-1-03 satellite atop a Long March 3B/E.
on January 17, 2021
Jilin-1-02D | Kuaizhou-1A
ExPace, a division of China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC), is launching the Gaofen-02D Earth observation satellite on a Kuaizhou-1A rocket. The Gaofen-02D satellite will join the Jilin-1 constellation of satellites in Low Earth Orbit.
on January 15, 2021
Chang’e 5 | Long March 5
China sent a sample return mission to the Moon and back! Chang'e 5 was sent to the Moon on the top of a Long March 5 rocket.
on January 2, 2021
XJY-7 & others | Long March 8
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) is launching a future reusable Long March 8 rocket for the first time. The payload is unknown but known as XJY-7.
on December 19, 2020
IPM- 2 | Angara A5/Briz-M
A Russian Angara rocket will launch an evaluation payload (possibly a "boiler plate") to Geostationary orbit. This will be only the 2nd flight of an Angara A5 rocket!
on December 5, 2020
Gaofen 14 | Long March 3B/E
Gaofen 14, an earth observation satellite, will be launched on top of a Long March 3B/E rocket into a Sun-synchronous orbit.
on December 5, 2020
Chang’e 5 | Long March 5
China is sending a sample return mission to the Moon! Chang'e 5 will be sent to the Moon on the top of a Long March 5 rocket.
on November 21, 2020
The Definitive Guide To Starship: Starship vs Falcon 9, what’s new and improved?
Starship poses the ultimate challenge in aerospace engineering: a fully and rapidly reusable, super heavy-lift launch vehicle, capable of taking 150 tonnes to low Earth orbit. That’s more payload than the Saturn V, and it’ll be fully reusable!
on November 6, 2020
GLONASS-K1 | Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat
Russia is launching one of its GLONASS global positioning satellites to medium Earth orbit. It's going up on a Soyuz 2.1b rocket, from Plesetsk Cosmodrome, in the Archangel region of North West Russia. Soyuz has been the workhorse of the Soviet/Russian space program. The first launch of the Soyuz 2-1a version on November 8, 2004 from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome represented a major step in the Soyuz launch vehicle’s development program. Fregat is the upper (4th) stage of Soyuz 2.1, and it first flew in the year 2000.
on October 19, 2020
Soyuz MS-17 | Soyuz 2.1a
Cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, and NASA astronaut Kathleen Rubins are launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. They are traveling to Low Earth Orbit for rendezvous with the International Space Station (ISS). This crew will form Expedition 64 on the ISS and will be joined two weeks later by SpaceX' Crew 1 flight raising the crew complement to 7.
on October 14, 2020