Satellite News

Rocket: Chang Zheng 2F; Payload: Shenzhou-11; Date: 16 October 2016, 2330 UTC; Launch site: Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China. Shenzhou-11 is carrying two astronauts who will remain in space for 33 days, the longest manned mission in the country’s space programme to date.

Vector Space Systems has finalised an agreement with York Space Systems, an aerospace company specialising in small and medium class spacecraft, to conduct six satellite launches from 2019 through 2022 with the option for 14 additional launches.

The ExoMars 2016 mission reached another major milestone on 16 October as the Schiaparelli lander separated from the TGO, or Trace Gas Orbiter.

Mission managers for NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter have decided to postpone the upcoming burn of its main rocket motor originally scheduled for 19 October.

Swedish Space Corporation has sold 100% of the shares of NanoSpace AB, a wholly owned subsidiary of SSC, to GS Sweden AB, the parent company of GomSpace ApS.