Satellite News

CGI Group Inc. said it supported Estonia’s first satellite launch, which took place on 7 May 2013, by building the satellite’s ground station control software. The ESTCube-1 satellite was successfully launched from the European spaceport in French Guiana.

The United Arab Emirates and Belarus have discussed ways to resolve interference between the satellite networks of the two countries.

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.

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