Satellite News

United Launch Alliance (ULA) announced the completion of two key milestones leading toward the certification of the Atlas V launch vehicle for human spaceflight.

ESA today signed a contract to build a further eight Galileo satellites, alongside other agreements to modify Europe’s Ariane 5 launcher to carry four navigation satellites at a time.

The DubaiSat-2 project has completed a crucial stage in its design phase, with the qualification model (QM) passing a series of rigorous tests.

Roskosmos hopes to receive an insurance payment of RUB1.5 billion (US$49.6 million) for the loss of the Fobos-Grunt probe, Roskosmos head Vladimir Popovkin told Ekho Moskvy radio.