Satellite News

A Proton M launch vehicle, utilising a 5-burn Briz M mission design, will lift off from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, with the TURKSAT-4B satellite on board on 16 October 2015 at 2040 UTC.

Airbus Defence and Space has finished building the structural model for ESA’s CHEOPS (CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite), Europe’s first mission to search for exoplanetary transits by performing ultra-high precision photometry on bright stars already known to host planets.

Saft has been awarded a Long Term Agreement (LTA) with The Boeing Company (Boeing) to supply lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries for its telecommunication satellites.