Satellite News

Russia will decide on the future of the Sea Launch project, which uses Russian-Ukrainian Zenit-SL rockets to put commercial cargo into orbit, by the end of the year, the head of Russia’s United Rocket and Space Corporation Igor Komarov was quoted as saying.

NASA has selected four proposals for advanced energy storage technologies that may be used to power the agency’s future space missions.

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will execute the largest planned manoeuvre of the spacecraft’s remaining mission on 9 August. The manoeuvre will target Cassini toward an 21 August encounter with Saturn’s largest moon, Titan.

After 14 years of monitoring Earth’s main energy source, radiation from the sun, NASA’s Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor satellite (AcrimSat) has lost contact with its ground operations team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, and its mission has been declared completed.