Monday, 29 May 2023

UPDATED : North Korea announces satellite launch for May 30 - June 10

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UPDATED 29 May 2023 12:00 UTC to reflect alternative orbit option UPDATED 30 May 7:45 UTC to add comparison with 2016 launch  UPDATE 30 May ...
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Wednesday, 17 May 2023

Gearing up for a new North Korean satellite launch

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photo: KCNA On May 17, the North Korean News Agency KCNA and the North Korean State Newspaper Rodong Sinmun carried a news item, accompan...
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Sunday, 7 May 2023

Calibrating tracking astrometry accuracies using SWARM as calibration objects

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Artist impression of SWARM (image: ESA)   When I started tracking satellites and publishing this blog 18 years ago, I spent a lot of time on...
Sunday, 16 April 2023

An upcoming Russian IRBM missile test on April 20-29

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click map to enlarge Two Navigational Warnings ( HYDROARC 50/23 and HYDROARC 51/23 ) have appeared that suggest an upcoming Russian missil...
Wednesday, 12 April 2023

Optically observing the RNLAF's 6U cubesats BRIK-II, HUYGENS and BIRKELAND

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  WATEC 902H2 Supreme camera with Samyang 2.0/135 mm lens and GPS time inserter The Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF) launched its first ...
Sunday, 9 April 2023

An upcoming French SLBM test in the Atlantic [UPDATED]

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click map to enlarge Spring has arrived, and this spring the fledgeling missiles fly, as I already noted in a previous post .  And now the F...
Saturday, 1 April 2023

The STARSHIP inaugural launch is near! [UPDATED]

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Launch trajectory. Click image to enlarge UPDATE 7 April 2023: New Navigational Warnings have been published which indicate that the launch...
Sunday, 26 March 2023

Missile Spring [updated multiple times]

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click map to enlarge Spring of 2023 seems to be the spring of missile tests . North Korea launched a whole bunch of them, including a Hwason...
Wednesday, 8 March 2023

Another Hypersonic glider test (likely AGM-183A ARRW) upcoming, in the Pacific [updated]

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click map to enlarge Last weekend saw a scrubbed Hypersonic Missile test from Cape Canaveral, Florida (see a previous post ). It looks that...