Satellite News

Rocket: PSLV-C34; Payload: Cartosat-2C, 19 co-passenger satellites, one of them carrying a subsatellite; Date: 22 June 2016, 0356 UTC; Launch site: Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, India. The payload was successfully deployed into a 505 km polar Sun Synchronous Orbit (SSO).

The next SpaceX commercial cargo resupply services mission for NASA to the International Space Station now is targeted for launch no earlier than 0445 UTC on 18 July.

China plans to launch its new generation Chang Zheng-7 carrier rocket between 25 and 29 June (local time) from a new launch centre in south China, according to the manned space engineering office.

Orbital ATK, Inc. announced the successful completion of its second cargo delivery mission in 2016 to the International Space Station under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services-1 (CRS-1) contract.

The twin Sentinel-1 satellites have – for the first time – combined to show their capability for revealing even small deformations in Earth’s surface.

DigitalGlobe, Inc. announced its WorldView-1 satellite has completed a planned 18-month-long transition from a morning orbit to an afternoon orbit, improving customers’ ability to detect, see, and understand change that occurs on our planet within a single day.

Russia will publicly release its own database of Earth orbiting satellites, Viktor Shilin, head of the Russian delegation at the 59th session of the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, told the Russian newspaper Izvestia.

The Space Foundation has released the findings of its publication “The Space Report 2016: The Authoritative Guide to Global Space Activity.”