Satellite News

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is still scheduled for launch on 27 September, at the opening of a window that extends from 1120 to 1149 UTC, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station aboard a Delta II Heavy.

The Russian Progress M-60 cargo spacecraft ended its five-day research mission that began after undocking from the ISS, and re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean earlier today.

The reentry capsule for the Foton-M3 spacecraft, which has been in low-Earth orbit for the last 12 days, successfully landed in an uninhabited area 150 km south of the town of Kustanay in Kazakhstan, close to the Russian border, today at 0758 UTC.

Arianespace plans to market the Indian PSLV and GSLV launchers, the company’s chief executive officer Jean-Yves Le Gall was quoted as saying by AFP.

SES New Skies said it is teaming up with SeaMobile’s Maritime Telecommunications Network (MTN) product group for extensive field tests of new miniaturised VSAT antennas, which will enable an array of satellite-based communications services for small vessels.

NASA, in coordination with the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites Program, has awarded an instrument contract to Lockheed Martin Corporation.

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is working on its own mobile communications satellite, GSAT-6/INSAT-4E.

The launch of the second Galileo test satellite, GIOVE-B, will reportedly be delayed by three months.