Satellite News

Rocket: Dnepr; Payload: KazEOSat 2 (a.k.a. DZZ-MR), 36 other satellites; Date: 19 June 2014, 1911 UTC; Launch site: Yasny, Russia.

Payload integration is underway for the four O3b Networks connectivity satellites to be orbited by Arianespace on its next Soyuz mission, scheduled for lift-off on 10 July from the spaceport in French Guiana.

The first test launch of Russia’s Angara light-weight rocket, initially set for 25 June, may be conducted from the Plesetsk Cosmodrone in the Arkhangelsk region on 27 June, a Russian space rocket industry source was quoted as saying.

Eutelsat Communications announced it is embarking on a new triple mission satellite programme that will support sustained demand for capacity for data, fixed and mobile broadband services as well as video.

European Space Propulsion (ESP), an Aerojet Rocketdyne company, has delivered the first set of satellite thrusters to Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd., in support of a joint mission between Taiwan and the United States to observe and monitor the global climate, atmosphere and ionosphere for enhanced weather forecasting.