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7 May 2026: The COMSPOC_OPS team posted a very interesting analytical product on X . The post detailed Pakistan’s growing space-based ISR constellation, focusing on the orbits of…
23 April 2026: Russia launched an Angara-1.2 from Plesetsk with Cosmos 2615, 2616, 2617, & 2618 (68826-29). All four satellites are OO-MKA imagery satellites and join 6 others…
14 Apr 2026: China launched a Lijian-1 with 8 Jilin-1 (Gaofen-7) satellites (68691-68698) from Jiuquan. According to CAS Space all satellites were successfully placed into the desired orbits.…
15 Apr 2026: The Financial Times reported that the Iranian military has tasking authority of a Chinese commercial imaging satellite, TEE-01B (60012), and has leveraged this capability to…
25 Mar 2026: China launched a Long March-2D launch vehicle launched the SuperView Neo-2 05 and SuperView Neo-2 06 (68377 & 68378) remote sensing satellites from Taiyuan. According…
15 Mar 2026: China launched a LM-6A with the Yaogan-50 02 (68196) from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center. According to official sources, the satellite “will be used for…
13 Mar 2026: China launched a Long March-2D carrying the Shiyan-30 03-04 satellites (68139 & 68140) from Xichang. The launch comes 6 months after the China launched SY-30…
18 Mar 2026: The Yaogan-31 A/B/C (43275, 43276, 43277) triplet has fallen out of formation. China launched the trio on 24 Feb 2021 and soon thereafter the satellites…
By Dr. Larissa Beavers 18 March 2026: The Wall Street Journal’s , Thomas Grove , recently reported that Russia is allegedly expanding military cooperation with Iran by providing…
5 Mar 2026: It appears China has stopped maintaining the orbits for 7 of 9 YG-43 01 satellites. Recall that China launched all 9 Yaogan-43 01 ISR satellites…
5 Mar 2026: The 9 satellites that make up the YG-43 02 (60945-60950) and YG-43 03 (61617-61619) train remain largely in formation. The one exception is YG-43 02A…
23 Dec 2025: The US Department of Defense/War released its annual report to Congress on military and security developments involving the People’s Republic of China. The document highlights…
30 Jan 2026: Jamestown.org published an article detailing Chinese analysis of the Russia-Ukraine Conflict. Author Sunny Cheung , concludes Chinese writings point to three overarching lessons: 1) the…
5 Feb 2026: Russialaunched a Soyuz 2.1B from Plesetsk carrying 9 payloads (67674-67682) to? Earth Orbit (LEO). Russia announced only that the satellites were for the Ministry of…
13 Jan 2026: China launched a LM-6A with the Yaogan-50 01 (67433) from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center. According to official sources, the satellite “will be used for…
26 Dec 2025: China launched a Long March-3B rocket with the FengYun-4C (67246) meteorological satellite from Xichang. FengYun-4C will operate in GEO over 133°E longitude. The same sources…
29 Dec 2025: Did I take the FY-4C launch as an opportunity to look at the Fengyun weather satellite constellation during the winter holidays? Why yes, yes I…
30 Dec 2025: China launched a Long March-4B with the Tianhui-7 (TH-7) mapping satellite (67300) from Jiuquan. TH-7 is currently in LEO at 485.2km and inclined at 97.42°.…
By Dr. Larissa Beavers The CNA report “ Russian Concepts of Future Warfare Based on Lessons from the Ukraine War ” examines how Russian military elites’ strategic and…
30 Dec 2025: China launched Long March-7A with the Shijian-29A and Shijian-29B satellites (67302 & 67303) from Wenchang. According to official sources, the satellites entered the preset orbit…
9 Dec 2025: China launched a Long March-4B with the Yaogan-47 (66988) imagery satellite from Jiuquan. According to official sources, the satellite has entered the preset orbit successfully…
25 Nov 2025: Tahir Azad published an article in Small Wars Journal describing China’s “growing satellite networks, which include navigation, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR), communications, and missile…
1 Dec 2025: After writing articles related to China’s three YG-40 launches to 86.0° inclination and their 6 launches of Guowang satellites to 86.5° inclined orbits I decided…
3 November 2025: Space Review journalist Bart Hendrickx reports that Russia is using a Chinese-built satellite—likely the Taijing-3-02 (likely 58822) launched in January 2024—to obtain high-resolution (0.5m) imagery…
