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By Dr. Larissa Beavers 11 March 2026: Al Jazeera reporter Nina Montagu-Smith examines growing intelligence assessments that Iran may be leveraging China’s BeiDou satellite navigation system to improve…
27 Sep 2025: As predicted in the previous Flash , China circularized Yaogan (YG)-45's (65563) and the satellite is now orbiting Earth at an average altitude of 7,500km.…
9 Sep 2025: China launched a Long March-7A with the Yaogan-45 (65563) satellite from Wenchang. Official sources noted the satellite entered the planned orbit and “will be mainly…
5 Feb 2022: China and Russia have agreed to coordinate their satellite navigation systems (Beidou and GLONASS respectively) as the two countries further solidify their partnership to rival…
19 Feb 2022: Russian positioned its electronic warfare units along with other forces along the Ukrainian border. They include TORN and SB-636 Svet-KU signals-intelligence systems that can pinpoint…
1 Mar 2022: Localized Russian jamming of GPS signals in Ukraine has been detected by US forces in the region, but so far has not interfered with US…
4 Mar 2022: In response to International Sanctions, the head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin has withdrawn Russian space support to international missions. - Cooperation between Roscosmos and other…
3 Mar 2022: Hacker group announced on Telegram it will try to compromise GLONASS, the Russian GPS consellation. Other targets include Russian media, power grid & railways. -…
- The total output value of China's satellite navigation and location services industry reached 469 billion yuan (about $69.6B) in 2021, up 16.3 percent from the previous year…
Over the summer, Jack Anthony will break down each of the six orbital elements required to uniquely identify a specific orbit and satellite in that orbit. This week…
22 Oct 2022: A Soyuz-2.1b rocket carried three new satellites for the Gonests-M communications network, along with an experimental version of the new-generation Skif-D satellite on 22 Oct.…
10 Oct 2022: Russia launched a Soyuz-2.1b from Plesetsk to add another GLONASS-K satellite to its current satellite navigation network. GLONASS-K No. 17 is the fifth in the…
28 Nov 2022: Russia launched a Soyuz-2.1b from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, carrying the final GLONASS-M satellite to orbit, designated Kosmos-2564. The GLONASS (Globalnaya Navigationnaya Sputnikovaya Sistema, or Global…
7 Aug 2023: After numerous delays, Russia launched a Soyuz-2 rocket with the first GLONASS-K2 spacecraft. GLONASS-K2 (Uragan-K2 or Cosmos-2569) promises to improve the accuracy of the Russian…
26 Dec: China launched a Long March-3B with a Yuanzheng-1 upper stage from Xichang with two backup BeiDou-3 navigation satellites (BeiDou-3 MEO-25 & MEO-26). Both satellites were sent…
16 Jul: After China launched two Smart Skynet-1 satellites (59705 and 59706) to Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) on 9 May 2024 both satellites are now cataloged. Smart Skynet…
China launched the first Smart SkyNet MEO broadband satellites on 9 May 2024, beginning an eight-satellite 20,000km communications constellation.
19 Mar 2023: An opinion article written by Air Marshal Anil Chopra, the Director General, Centre for Air Power Studies argues Space superiority is key for modern information-centric…
The issue reviews alleged GLONASS secondary payloads for nuclear detection, military search-and-rescue and naval SIGINT targeting support.
The final Jack's Astro Corner installment explains True Anomaly, its relationship to perigee and the position vector, and how it differs from Mean Anomaly.
Jack's Astro Corner explains RAAN as the 'twist' of the orbit, introduces GEO polar plots, and demonstrates why inclination and RAAN must both be matched.
7 Jul 2022: The Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) successfully launched GLONASS-K No.16L navigation satellite on a Soyuz rocket from Site 43/4 at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northwestern Russia,…
5 November 2021: China hosted the first China-Africa BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) Cooperation Forum in Beijing. Government representatives, industry leaders, and researchers from China, experts and scholars…
China's Beido-3 reached full operational status in June 2020 marking a major milestone in a 20+ year journey to develop a completely indigenous GNSS. A recent open source…
