Satellite News

India is likely to put into orbit its fourth regional navigation satellite on 28 March with the country’s space agency now in the process of loading the rocket with the satellite, an ISRO official was quoted as saying.

For the past eight days, Rosetta has been sending signals to Philae and listening for a response, but the lander has not yet reported back.

Rocket: Proton-M/Briz-M; Payload: Ekspress AM7; Date: 18 March 2015, 2205 UTC; Launch site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. As per the mission plan, the spacecraft/upper stage separation took place 9 hours and 13 minutes after lift-off.

Arianespace and Airbus Defence and Space have reached an agreement for the launch of EDRS-C which is the second geostationary satellite of the SpaceDataHighway system.

Airbus Defence and Space in the UK is now producing its first space qualified aluminium 3D printed components after a two year research and development programme under the National Space Technology Programme, through Innovate UK (formerly the Technology Strategy Board) and the UK Space Agency.

NASA has selected United Launch Services, LLC [a subsidiary of United Launch Alliance] to provide launch services for the agency’s Solar Probe Plus (SPP) mission.

The seventh and eighth Galileo satellites, set for launch together in nine days’ time, have been fitted together onto the dispenser that will carry them during their flight to orbit.

Eutelsat Communications announced the creation of a new division in the UK that will drive its strategy for serving providers of end-to-end government services, NGOs and institutional agencies in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.