Satellite News

Rocket: Proton M/Briz M; Payload: Turksat 4A; Date: 14 February 2013, 2109 UTC; Launch site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The rocket lifted off as planned.

In order to allow Hispasat to perform complementary checks on its Amazonas 4A satellite, Arianespace will reschedule the Ariane 5 mission originally planned for 7 March.

The launcher for Arianespace’s initial Vega flight of 2014 began its build-up this week at the Spaceport in French Guiana, marking the first step in a mission campaign that will lead to its orbiting of the DZZ-HR high-resolution observation satellite.

On the night of 12-13 February 2014 (local time) the GLONASS-M #54 spacecraft left ISS-Reshetnev’s facilities and was transported by air to the Plesetsk cosmodrome.

Eutelsat Communications reported financial results for the first half of its fiscal years 2013-2014.

According to Euroconsult’s newly released research report, Profiles of Government Space Programs, global budgets for space programmes dropped to US$72.1 billion in 2013 following peak spending at US$72.9 billion in 2012.