Satellite News

The launch of Sentinel-1B and a few piggyback satellites aboard a Soyuz 2-1a from French Guiana has been rescheduled for 23 April.

China will launch about 150 of its Chang Zheng rockets over the next five years, one of its space chiefs was quoted as saying.

Russia plans to put a dozen of new communications satellites into the Earth’s orbit in the next nine years, the head of the country’s communications agency Rossvyaz said.

Ball Aerospace has begun environmental testing on the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS-1) satellite. JPSS-1 will represent significant technological and scientific advancements in severe weather prediction and environmental monitoring and will further weather, climate, environmental and oceanographic science, the company said.