Satellite News

The Aerospace Corporation’s Center for Space Policy and Strategy (CSPS) analysed the risks that launch delays pose to large satellite constellations in a policy paper, Launch Uncertainty: Implications for Large Constellations.

The Characterising Exoplanet Satellite, Cheops, will target 15 October to 14 November 2019 for launch.

NASA’s Mars Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) spacecraft is on track for a soft touchdown on the surface of the Red Planet on 26 November.

Gilmour Space Technologies, Australia, has signed a long-term collaboration and supply agreement with RUAG Space.

New launch dates have been announced for SpaceX’s Falcon 9 and ULA’s Delta IV Heavy.

The launch of the third Blagovest military communications satellite is planned for 21 December from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, a source in the domestic space industry was quoted as saying by TASS.

China and Brazil will launch a new Earth resource satellite next year, according to an official with the China National Space Administration.

Rocket: Vega; Payload: MOHAMMED VI-B; Date: 21 November 2018, 0142 UTC; Launch site: Kourou, French Guiana. The mission – which lasted 55 minutes from lift-off to payload separation – placed its passenger into a Sun-synchronous orbit.