Satellite News

Rocket: Soyuz-FG; Payload: Soyuz TMA-09M; Date: 28 May 2013, 2031 UTC; Launch site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Aboard the manned Soyuz vessel are three new ISS Expedition 36 crew members.

The Khrunichev Space Center has shipped the first flight model of light-weight Angara 1.2 PP (PP is the Russian for “Maiden Launch”) to the Plesetsk Cosmodrome.

A Northrop Grumman Corporation-led team recently completed the third gate review of its first Modular Space Vehicle (MSV) bus assembly, integration and test, marking completion of functional testing.