Satellite News

Orbital ATK, Inc. received a US$23.6 million contract from the U.S. Air Force’s Operationally Responsive Space (ORS) Office to launch the ORS-5 SensorSat spacecraft in mid-2017, using a rocket from the company’s Minotaur launch vehicle family.

The U.S. Air Force and its mission partners are scheduled to launch the 10th Boeing-built Global Positioning System IIF satellite aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V launch vehicle on 15 July. The launch window opens at 1536 UTC and will remain open for 18 minutes.

NASA’s New Horizons made its closest approach to Pluto on 14 July, about 12,400 km above the surface — roughly the same distance from New York to Mumbai, India – making it the first-ever space mission to explore a world so far from Earth.

Information Satellite Systems – Reshetnev Company said it is working on new automated control systems to be implemented during satellites’ preparation to launch.

Inmarsat and the European Space Agency (ESA) have announced the successful completion of Phase 1 of ESA’s Iris Precursor; the ‘Final Design Review’ to validate the architecture & system design, and the safety & security of ESA’s Iris programme.