Satellite News

Rocket: Chang Zheng 4B; Payload: Shi Jian 16-2; Date: 29 June 206, 0321 UTC; Launch site: Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China. The satellite was catalogued in a 595 km x 616 km x 75.0 degrees orbit.

Russian space agency Roskosmos has reportedly revived plans to develop a reusable first rocket stage.

The navigation satellite GLONASS-M No. 53, designed and built by Academician M.F. Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems, has been fully commissioned into operation.

EUMETSAT has approved a new strategy and the move of Meteosat-8 over the Indian Ocean.

NASA’s Juno mission will arrive at Jupiter and begin its orbit insertion manoeuvre at 0318 UTC on 5 July 2016. Juno’s goals are to study Jupiter’s gravitational field, inner structure, deep atmospheric composition and magnetic environment in order to understand the origin and evolution of the giant planet.

Hughes Network Systems, LLC announced the launch of HughesNet high-speed satellite Internet service in Brazil, the company’s first international deployment of its award-winning consumer service outside of North America, beginning on 1 July.