Satellite News

Rocket: Proton M/Briz M; Payload: SES 6; Date: 3 June 2013, 0918 UTC; Launch site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Payload separation was scheduled for 4 June, 0049 UTC (too late for this issue).

The launch of IRNSS-1A, the first Indian navigation satellite, will be delayed two weeks. The spacecraft was previously scheduled for launch onboard PSLV-C22 on 11 June 2013 at 1931 UTC from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota.

China’s Shenzhou-10 manned spacecraft is scheduled to be launched in the middle of June, a spokesperson for the country’s manned space programme was quoted as saying. An exact date was not given.

Sea Launch AG has announced that the Failure Review Oversight Board (FROB) issued its final summary report of findings on 31 May following its review of the investigation into the cause of the failed launch attempt of the IS-27 spacecraft on 31 January 2013.

Academician M.F. Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems has approached to and already begun one of the most important stages in the manufacture of the Ekspress-AT2 telecommunications spacecraft – integration of its platform and payload module.