Satellite News

Rocket: Soyuz-2.1a; Payload: Progress-MS1 [Progress-MS, Progress 62P]; Date: 21 December 2015, 0844:39 UTC; Launch site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The cargo spacecraft was released into orbit as scheduled less than 10 minutes after lift-off.

SpaceX confirmed that the company is targeting launch of the 11 Orbcomm satellites aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on 22 December 2015 at 0129 UTC.

U.S. Air Force Space Command’s Space and Missile Systems Center announced the completion of two major milestones in the development and fielding of its new Space-based Infrared System ground system.

Airbus Group has signed a share purchase agreement with French private equity firm Apax Partners for the takeover of all of its commercial satellite communication business.