Satellite News

The transport cargo vehicle Progress M-25M made at RSC Energia has undocked from the ISS and reentered Earth’s atmosphere above the Pacific Ocean.

A General Dynamics-led team successfully completed on-schedule the implementation, integration and test of the NASA Space Network Ground Segment Sustainment (SGSS) programme Increment A3, the Bearer Network and Basic Ground Terminal hardware and software.

EgyptSat 2, operating in orbit, is under the full control of Egyptian experts, the head of the country’s National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences (NARSS), Medhat Mokhtar, was quoted as saying .

Rocket: Ariane 5 ECA; Payload: Thor 7, SICRAL 2; Date: 26 April 2015, 2000 UTC; Launch site: Kourou, French Guiana. Both spacecraft were deployed following their ascent from the Spaceport’s ELA-3 launch zone, with Thor 7 released some 28 minutes after lift-off, and SICRAL 2 separating approximately six minutes later to complete the flight sequence.

During the final count-down operations for flight VA222 slated for today, an anomaly occurred on a conditioning equipment of the launcher.

A Proton M launch vehicle, utilising a five-burn Briz M mission design, will lift off from Pad 39 0707 UTC on 29 April 2015 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, with the Centenario (MexSat-1) satellite on board.

Aerojet Rocketdyne has been selected by the NASA Advanced Exploration Systems Division to start negotiations for a contract to design and demonstrate an advanced propulsion system that would enable human spaceflight to cislunar space and beyond to Mars.

23 April marked 50 years since the launch of the first communications satellite of the Molniya family into a highly elliptical orbit.