🛰️In the margins of the #HCoC ARM, VCDNP and FRS are co-hosting a side-event on "HCoC and Space Launch Technologies"
With UNODA, UNOOSA, ESPI, BMEIA, PMs of & Jordan Uruguay in Vienna
🚀Fascinating discussion on #hypersonic missiles, arms control and CBMs at the VIC in the margins of the #HCoC Annual Regular Meeting.
🇪🇺🇺🇾🇯🇴 An event supported by @eudiplomacy.bsky.social & introduced by M. Homolkova, Amb. Garofali from Uruguay and Amb . Hindawi from Jordan
#7 — SLS SLV | Artemis II 🚀
📍Kennedy Space Center | 2 Apr 2026
Successful launch of the SLS for the Artemis II mission, sending the first crewed flght to lunar orbit since the Apollo missions.
🔗https://shorturl.at/83mZQ
#LaunchUpdates #ArtemisII #SLS
🔴Happening now! States are gathering in Vienna for the Annual Regular Meeting of the #HCoC
A chance to discuss missile proliferation, space launch developments & for Amb. Garofali from @CancilleriaUy 🇺🇾 to pass the Chairmanship of the Code to @AmbMHindawi from 🇯🇴
Thanks to our panelists, M. Evestedt from FOI, Zuzanna Gwadera from IISS, E. Maitre from FRS & Kolja Brockmann from @sipri.org for the great insights.
#8 — Soyuz-5 | Successful maiden flight
📍 Site 45, Baikonur, Kazakhstan | 30 April 2026
Soyuz-5 first flightwas a key validation of new Russian medium-lift launcher.
#LaunchUpdates #Roscosmos #Soyuz-5 #Spaceflight #Russia #HCoC
🔗https://www.nonproliferation.eu/hcoc/first-flight-of-soyuz-5/
#11 — Long March 12B maiden flight
📍 Jianquan | 1 June 2026
China successfully launched the Long March 12B Y1. The 2-stage 🚀, capable of lifting ~20t to LEO was designed for reusability.
#LaunchUpdates #China #LongMarch12B #CASC #Reusability #HCoC
🔗https://shorturl.at/7O0PQ
🚀 🇷🇺 Launch Updates | Episode 10
Russia Tests RS-28 Sarmat ICBM
📅12 May 2026
After a series of failure, Russia successfully conducted a test launch of the RS-28 Sarmat.
🔗https://shorturl.at/heakX
#LaunchUpdates #Russia #Sarmat #RS28 #ICBM #MissileTest #StrategicForces #HCoC
🚀🇮🇳 #9 — India tests MIRV-capable Agni-V
📍 Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Island | 8 May 2026
MIRVed Agni-V flight test successfully conducted across the Indian Ocean Region.
#LaunchUpdates #India #AgniV #MIRV #MissileTest #StrategicForces #HCoC
🔗 shorturl.at/UJW4i
#6 — Iran IRBM | Diego Garcia🚀
📍Diego Garcia | 20 Mar 2026
2 Iranian missiles targeted the US-UK. First combat use of IRBM, range ~ 4,000 km, likely Ghaem-100, Qased or Khorramshahr-4.
🔗https://shorturl.at/XYhHP
#LaunchUpdates #Iran #BallisticMissiles #DiegoGarcia #IRBM
