Satellite News

Rocket: Ariane 5 ES; Payload: ATV-4 Albert Einstein; Date: 5 June 2013, 2142 UTC; Launch site: Kourou, French Guiana. The unmanned cargo vessel separated from the upper stage at 2256 UTC, about half an hour later deployed its solar arrays and is now on its way to the ISS, with a docking scheduled in ten days’ time. It will remain attached to the station for about five months.

A Lockheed Martin-led industry team has completed successful functional integration tests of the spacecraft bus and network communications equipment on the first satellite of the next generation Global Positioning System, known as GPS III.

A network of remote sensing satellite ground stations that covers all of China’s territory has been completed, the Chinese Academy of Sciences announced.