Commercial Space Technologies Ltd.
Commercial Space Technologies Ltd. (CST) has, for over 30 years, provided consultancy services in all branches of space activity from its London office. With the aid of a representative office in Moscow and a capable native team (established for over 20 years) it offers expertise in trading and the management of joint projects between Western and Russian companies (such as Canopus) and has also brokered 33 successful satellite launches, from three separate launch sites, on 5 different launch Vehicles.
YEAR |
DATE |
LAUNCHER (MODE) |
SATELLITE(S) |
1995 |
August 31 |
Tsyklon (1 piggy-back) |
Fasat Alpha |
1998 |
July 10 |
Zenit (2 piggy-back) |
Fasat Bravo + TM Sat |
1999 |
April 21 |
Dnepr (1 dedicated) |
Uo Sat 12 (first commercial use of SS-18) |
2000 |
June 28 |
Cosmos (2 piggy-back) |
Tsinghua 1 +Snap (first SSO flight of Cosmos) |
2000 |
September 26 |
Dnepr (1 piggy-back) |
Tiung Sat |
2002 |
November 28 |
Cosmos (main in cluster) |
Alsat-first Disaster Monitoring Constellation (DMC) |
2003 |
September 27 |
Cosmos (3 in cluster) |
NigeriaSat-1, BilSat-1 and UK-DMC (all DMC) |
2004 |
June 29 |
Dnepr (main in cluster) |
Demeter (CNES, first SSO flight of Dnepr) |
2005 |
October 27 |
Cosmos (3 in cluster) |
TopSat, ChinaSat (DMC), SSETI Express+cubesats |
2008 |
August 29 |
Dnepr (5 in cluster) |
RapidEye constellation |
2009 |
July 29 |
Dnepr (2 in cluster) |
UK-DMC2 + DEIMOS-1 (both DMC) |
2009 |
September 17 |
Soyuz/Fregat (1 piggy-back) |
SumbandilaSat (South Africa, first piggy-back from this launcher combination) |
2010 |
June 15 |
Dnepr (1 of a pair) |
Picard (CNES, paired with Prisma) |
2011 |
August 17 |
Dnepr (2 in cluster) |
NigeriaSat-2 and NigeriaSat-X |
2012 |
July 22 |
Soyuz/Fregat (1 piggy back) |
ADS-1B |
2014 |
June 19 |
Dnepr (1 in cluster) |
KazEOSat-2 |
2014 |
July 8 |
Soyuz/ Fregat (2 piggy back) |
TechDemoSat-1 (TDS-1), UKube-1 |