Satellite News

A new GLONASS navigation satellite will be launched at the end of this year, Information Satellite Systems Reshetnev announced.

Last night, United Launch Alliance (ULA) rolled the Delta IV Heavy rocket from its processing facility to Space Launch Complex 37 in advance of the 4 December Exploration Flight Test (EFT-1) for NASA’s Orion spacecraft.

NASA and ATK successfully completed a static test of the launch abort motor igniter for the Orion crew capsule’s Launch Abort System (LAS). Conducted at ATK’s facility in Promontory, Utah, this test is the next step toward qualifying the igniter for production.

Aerojet Rocketdyne announced that it submitted a formal response to the U.S. Air Force’s Request for Information on options for future booster propulsion and launch systems that could be used as alternatives to foreign-supplied RD-180 engines.

Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) announced a design for an integrated system for human spaceflight that can be launched to low Earth orbit (LEO) using Stratolaunch System’s air launch architecture and a scale version of SNC’s Dream Chaser spacecraft.

The Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite mission in is to be launched early 2015 aboard a Falcon 9. The satellite, formerly known as Triana (jokingly) GoreSat after a former U.S. vice president, is to give warnings of solar activity that could potentially wreak havoc throughout society and the economy on Earth.

Vizocom, a provider of integrated satellite broadband solutions, announced it has selected the Eutelsat 21B satellite to implement a connectivity service in countries with harsh and challenging environments and limited terrestrial infrastructure.

The Herschel-Planck programme has won the gold medal award at the 28th world congress of the IPMA (International Project Management Association).