Satellite News

News dates have been set for the next flights of the Vega and Ariane 5 rockets.

JAXA said it is pushing back the launch date for the country’s first unmanned moon landing to the second half of fiscal 2019. JAXA informed a panel meeting of the science ministry about the delay. The project was originally due to lift-off in fiscal 2018.

Russia’s newest heavy rocket carrier Angara-A5 will orbit a commercial satellite for the first time in 2016, the head of the Khrunichev Center was quoted as saying.

Thales Alenia Space Belgium, the Belgian subsidiary of Thales Alenia Space, was chosen by OHB to supply electronics for the ExoMars 2018 mission to explore Mars.

Exoplanets, plasma physics and the X-ray Universe are the topics chosen by ESA to be considered for the fourth medium-class mission in its Cosmic Vision science programme, for launch in 2025.

European and Chinese scientists have recommended the Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer as their candidate for a collaborative science mission for launch in 2021.