Satellite News

The lightweight Vega member of Arianespace’s launch vehicle family has been given the “all clear” for lift-off on 11 February with its European Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (IXV) payload.

1Arianespace has ordered six more Soyuz-ST carrier rockets for launches from the Kourou space centre in French Guiana in the next four years, Alexander Kirilin, CEO of the Progress Rocket and Space Center in Samara, was quoted as saying by TASS.

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. reportedly secured leasing rights to the first-ever “landing pad” at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

Elbit Systems Ltd. announced that it delivered the Venus Space Camera to the French Space Agency, Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES). This delivery follows the completion a successful and extensive process of examination of the camera’s ability to withstand harsh space conditions and its performance capabilities.

Orbital ATK, Inc. today marks its first full day of operations following the completion yesterday of the merger between Orbital Sciences Corporation and the Aerospace and Defense Groups of Alliant Techsystems Inc.