Satellite News

The fourth SpaceX cargo mission to the International Space Station (ISS) under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services contract is scheduled to launch Saturday, 20 September from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

Payload preparations for Arianespace’s next Ariane 5 flight are moving into their full pace with delivery of the mission’s other passenger – ISDLA-1 – to French Guiana, where it joins the ARSAT-1 satellite that arrived earlier this month.

United Launch Alliance (ULA) said it will support the United States Air Force’s Request for Information (RFI) for a new national engine and that it is finalising details related to developing its own next generation, first-stage American engine with a U.S. aerospace partner.

Orbcomm Inc. announced that it has launched commercial service for its first six next generation OG2 satellites.

NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity’s Flash file system was successfully reformatted on Sol 3773 (4 September 2014).

Reports about an ageing Russian spy satellite that failed and “exploded” over the U.S. appear to be exaggerated. Nonetheless, something likely did go wrong.

Export Development Canada (EDC) announced financing of EUR123 million to Hispasat for the construction of a satellite by Canada’s MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd (MDA), and its SSL subsidiary.

DataPath, Inc., a provider of remote communications solutions to the government, broadcast, and industrial operations markets announced that is re-launching a brand long-known to the satellite industry.