Satellite News

Roskosmos said that the latest failure of a Proton rocket (the seventh in five years) was due to excessive vibrations in the engine of the rocket’s third stage.

The Satellite Industry Association (SIA) released its 2015 State of the Satellite Industry Report, showing a four percent growth rate in world satellite industry revenues in 2014, up from three percent in 2013.

The Airbus Defence and Space built C-band radar instrument for the Copernicus Sentinel-1B satellite is now on its way to “meet” its spacecraft at Thales Alenia Space (TAS), Italy, the prime contractor for this programme.

The U.S. Air Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center awarded the Combined Orbital Operations Logistics Sustainment (COOLS) contract to Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, Sunnyvale, California.

SSTL has completed its new Spacecraft Operations Centre (SOC) at the company’s headquarters in Guildford, Surrey.

Orbital ATK, Inc. announced financial results for the quarter ending 31 March 2015.

The second flight test of NASA’s Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) now will launch no earlier than 1630 UTC on 2 June from the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF) on Kauai, Hawaii.

Space Systems/Loral (SSL) announced that the Star One C4 satellite, designed and built for Embratel Star One, has arrived at the European Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, where it will be launched aboard an Ariane 5 launch vehicle by Arianespace. The launch marks the 50th SSL mission with Arianespace.