Satellite News

The U. S. Air Force awarded launch services contracts for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) L-47 and Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) GEO-4 to United Launch Alliance (ULA) missions as part of the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) Phase 1 Block Buy contract.

The FORMOSAT-5 satellite has passed space environment and function tests and is expected to be launched at the end of February 2016, South Korea’s Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) said.

The LISA Pathfinder demonstrator for space-based observations of gravitational waves is undergoing checkout, preparing it for a 2 December launch on Arianespace’s sixth flight of the Vega light-lift launcher from French Guiana.

Airbus Defence and Space has successfully completed the final integration and testing of the new Telstar 12 VANTAGE satellite for Telesat.

ISS-Reshetnev team has completed the main in-orbit flight testing programme on the telecommunications satellite Ekspress-AM8.

40 years ago today, on 16 October 1975, NOAA’s first Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Known as GOES-A when it launched, the satellite was designated GOES-1 once operational.

Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC) Energia has taken out a patent for the invention of a transformable habitable module for the Russian Segment of the International Space Station (ISS) and future space stations.

The first launches from the Vostochny Cosmodrome are possible in 2016, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said. This would be at least three months later than previously planned.