Satellite News

United Launch Alliance (ULA) unveiled its Next Generation Launch System (NGLS) today at the 31st Space Symposium. The new rocket, Vulcan, will transform the future of space by making launch services more affordable and accessible, according to the company.

The launch of the sixth Commercial Resupply Services mission to the ISS was cancelled today owing to bad weather.

The launch of an X-37B spaceplane aboard an Atlas 5 will slip at least two weeks, United Launch Alliance said.

The “green light” has been given for this week’s heavy-lift Ariane 5 mission from the Spaceport in French Guiana, which is to orbit a dual-passenger payload consisting of two telecommunications satellites: Thor 7 and Sicral 2.

Station acquisition manoeuvres for India’s recently launched IRNSS 1D navigation satellite were successfully carried out.

SES Government Solutions (SES GS) announced that it has been awarded a five-year contract by the University of Colorado to host a NASA funded payload on board SES-14.

On 8 April, MESSENGER mission operators at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) successfully conducted a contingency orbit-correction manoeuvre (OCM-15a), to supplement a burn on 6 April (OCM-15) that concluded early when the last drops of hydrazine fuel were expended.