Satellite News

Rocket: Soyuz U; Payload: Progress M-24M (ISS Progress 56); Date: 23 July 2014, 2144 UTC; Launch site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The unmanned supply vessel was separated into its target orbit nine minutes after launch.

The launch of a Delta IV from Cape Canaveral was scrubbed today after a device that provides environmentally-controlled commodities to the vehicle shut down.

Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) announced the expansion of its Dream Chaser Space System’s global partnership to include Asia and the Pacific Rim through a recently signed memorandum of co-operative understanding with the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).

SpaceX said its Falcon 9 rocket’s first stage reentered Earth’s atmosphere and soft landed in the Atlantic Ocean following the recent launch of six Orbcomm satellites.

NASA has issued a Request for Information (RFI) to investigate the possibility of using commercial Mars-orbiting satellites to provide telecommunications capabilities for future robotic missions to the Red Planet.

Space Systems/Loral (SSL) announced that it was one of 14 companies qualified by the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) to compete for work with U.S. Government agencies to host government payloads on commercial satellites.

SES Government Solutions (SES GS) said it is one of fourteen awardees granted a share of a contract worth in total a maximum of US$$495 million under the Hosted Payload Solutions (HoPS) Program.

The Boeing Company reported second-quarter financial results.