Satellite News

Rocket: PSLV-XL; Payload: three DMC3 satellites, CBNT-1, DeOrbitSail; Date: 10 June 2015, 1628 UTC; Launch site: Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India. The rocket successfully put the five British satellites into the intended Sun-synchronous orbit after a flawless take-off.

Arianespace’s next Ariane 5 flight has been authorised for lift-off on 15 July following a launch readiness review, which was conducted at the Spaceport in French Guiana.

The Philae lander communicated with the Rosetta orbiter again between 1745 and 1807 UTC on 9 July 2015 and transmitted measurement data from the COmet Nucleus Sounding Experiment by Radiowave Transmission (CONSERT) instrument.

A trio of Gonets-M satellites which was launched into orbit on 31 March earlier this year and completed the orbital constellation of the multifunctional personal satellite communications system Gonets-D1M has finally gone into service.

Neptec UK Limited has signed a contract with Sener of Spain for the development and delivery of Neptec’s High Accuracy Metrology System (HAMS) for the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Proba 3 satellite mission, tentatively scheduled to launch in late 2018.

Aerojet Rocketdyne said it successfully built and tested a prototype system designed to improve the way power is delivered from the solar arrays to the high-power electric thrusters on Solar Electric Propulsion (SEP) spacecraft.

Satellite telecommunications service provider SpeedCast International Limited announced that it has acquired the assets of the teleport and satellite services business of NewSat from its receivers.