Satellite News

Orbital ATK, Inc. has signed a US$98 million agreement with Lockheed Martin to provide the launch abort motor for the Orion human spaceflight capsule’s Launch Abort System (LAS). The Orion spacecraft will launch aboard NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS).

A new development centre will advance satellite sensing and communication technologies, broadly known as Radio Frequency (RF) payloads, at the Lockheed Martin facility in Denver, the company said.

Russia’s lower house of parliament, the State Duma, last week approved in the third and final reading the law on the establishment of the Roskosmos Space Corporation.

The Space Foundation has released the findings of its publication “The Space Report 2015: The Authoritative Guide to Global Space Activity.”