Tuesday, 22 August 2023

A new North Korean satellite launch attempt upcoming [UPDATED]

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Click map to enlarge UPDATE (24 Aug 2023) The launch took place around 18:50 UTC (so at nighttime this time) on August 23. The payload fai...
Tuesday, 8 August 2023

The reentry of a Soyuz rocket stage over southern Australia on August 7

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click map to enlarge   On 7 August 2023 at 13:20 UTC , Russia launched the first of it's improved GLONASS-K2 navigation satellites fro...
Monday, 26 June 2023

[UPDATED] North Korea's KMS 4 has only a few days left on orbit

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  [ post update nr 8, 4 July 2023  09:40 UTC ] Recently, on May 30, North Korea tried to launch a new satellite. The satellite however did ...
Thursday, 22 June 2023

UPDATED: Ceci n'est pas une pipe... (French and US missile tests in the Atlantic in June)

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click map to enlarge They must love Magritte over at the French DoD, looking at the shape of the exclusion zones for a missile test publishe...
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 ...