Satellite News

Rocket: Soyuz 2.1a; Payload: Progress MS-06 [ISS Progress 67]; Date: 15 June 2017, 0920:13 UTC; Launch site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The Progress transport cargo vehicle was successfully put into low Earth orbit and is headed for the International Space Station (ISS).

Following the launch of the first ten Iridium NEXT satellites in January 2017, their commissioning has proceeded very smoothly, as they passed all in-orbit tests.

Boeing said it would restructure its defence, space and security (BDS) division into smaller units and cut about 50 jobs this year.

Designed to operate for five years, Airbus’s Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite TerraSAR-X has achieved ten years of flawless operations in orbit providing high-resolution radar images in all weather conditions 24 hours a day.