Sentinel-3B arrives at Plesetsk Cosmodrome
March 19th, 2018 by
The Sentinel-3B satellite was shipped from Thales Alenia Space’s Cannes plant last week.
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March 19th, 2018 by
The Sentinel-3B satellite was shipped from Thales Alenia Space’s Cannes plant last week.
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March 19th, 2018 by
GovSat-1 has entered operational service, to provide secure communications to governmental and institutional users. GovSat-1 is the first satellite of GovSat, a public private partnership between the Government of Luxembourg and satellite operator SES.
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March 18th, 2018 by
Rocket: Chang Zheng 2D; Payload: Land Survey Satellite 4 (Ludikancha Weixing 4, LKW-4); Date: 17 March 2018, 0710 UTC; Launch site: Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre, China. China’s main space contractor CASC confirmed that launch had been successfully towards a 500 km altitude Sun-synchronous orbit less than an hour after lift-off.
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March 18th, 2018 by
Aerojet Rocketdyne recently completed delivery of all of the crew module engines for Boeing’s Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 Starliner spacecraft.
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March 18th, 2018 by
The Fourth Academy of the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC), the main contractor for the Chinese space programme, officially unveiled a new subordinate entity to build space-based Internet services using 80 small satellites.
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March 15th, 2018 by
The U.S. Air Force announced the award of two Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) launch service contracts.
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March 15th, 2018 by
Orbital ATK has been given approval to begin building the NASA Landsat 9 spacecraft after completing a comprehensive design review of the mission. Landsat 9, a land surface mapping satellite, will collect space-based images and data that serve as valuable resources for researchers in areas that include agriculture, land use mapping, and disaster relief. Orbital ATK is designing and manufacturing the satellite, integrating two government-furnished instruments, and supporting launch, early orbit operations and on-orbit check-out of the observatory.
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March 15th, 2018 by
Airbus has launched the OPTIMA project, which will deliver a proof of concept demonstrator for the use of photonic payloads in telecommunications satellites.
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