Satellite News

A Rokot launch vehicle lifted off at the Plesetsk Launch Base on 26 August 2005 to place the Monitor E Earth observation small satellite in orbit. This experimental small EO spacecraft was the first built by Khrunichev. The 750-kg satellite is designed to support studies of Earth’s resources from a 540-km orbit.

Metop-A, Europe’s first polar-orbiting satellite dedicated to operational meteorology, has completed its 20,000th orbit of the Earth.

Lockheed Martin said it congratulated the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) on the 50-year anniversary of the first Corona photo reconnaissance satellite image from space.

The fifth Global Positioning System Block IIR (GPS IIR-5) satellite, designed and built by Lockheed Martin, has reached 10 years of successful on-orbit operations.
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Proton on 16 July celebrated the 45th anniversary of its first flight. Originally named UR-500, the rocket later took on the name Proton in homage of its first three payloads. Its first payload, the satellite “Proton-1,” has a mass of over twelve tons and was inserted into orbit at 589 km apogee, 183 km perigee, and an inclination of 63.4 degrees.
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