Satellite News

A new-series crew transportation spacecraft Soyuz MS-02 developed and built by RSC Energia was transported as a part of the upper composite to the site where it will be integrated with the launch vehicle Soyuz-FG.

United Launch Alliance and Boeing unveiled an updated aerodynamic configuration of the Atlas V that will launch Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner crew capsule for NASA after encountering challenges with aerodynamic stability and loads.

The China Academy of Space Technology has announced plans to launch the world’s first X-ray pulsar navigation satellite (XPNAV-1) in November, Xinhua reported. The move brings autonomous spacecraft navigation and a more precise deep-space GPS one step closer to reality.

Raytheon said it has reached another milestone in its development of the U.S. Air Force’s Global Positioning System Next Generation Operational Control System, known as GPS OCX.