Satellite News

Rocket: Atlas V 401; Payload: OA-4 Cygnus; Date: 6 December 2015, 2144 UTC; Launch site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, USA. The mission, flown for Orbital ATK under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services contract, marks the first time the Cygnus has flown on an Atlas V rocket. The launch had been delayed for three consecutive days owing to bad weather.

Rocket: Soyuz 2.1v/Volga; Payload: Kanopus ST (Kosmos 2511), KYuA 1 (Kosmos 2512); Date: 5 December 2015; Launch site: Plesetsk, Russia. The launch appears to have been only partially successful as one of the satellites reportedly did not separate.