Satellite News

Russia and Kazakhstan will decide which type of rocket to use for the Baiterek [aka Baitarek] Space Complex under construction within the next two months, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin was quoted as saying.

Aerojet Rocketdyne announced it has completed its 100th deliverable Solid Rocket Booster (SRB), AJ60, for United Launch Alliance (ULA) in support of the Atlas V launch vehicle programme.

RSC Energia specialists have proceeded to a ground development testing of electric power transmission from one object to another using infrared laser radiation.

Two European instruments and four European contributions on two Russian instruments have been selected for the Russian-led science platform that will land on Mars as part of the ESA-Roskosmos ExoMars 2018 mission.

Rocket: Chang Zheng 4C; Payload: Yaogan 29 (YG 29); Date: 26 November 2015, 2124 UTC. The remote sensing satellite was placed into a 615 km x 619 km x 97.8 degrees sun-synchronous orbit.

Roskosmos has set the launch date of what appears to be the last Russian-Ukrainian launch vehicle in the Zenit family of launch systems.

The Satellite Spectrum Initiative, which was formed by stakeholders in the satellite industry, has summed up some key decisions made during World Radiocommunication Conference 2015.

For the 11th launch of 2015 from the Guiana Space Center, the Vega light launcher on its overall sixth mission, this time on behalf of ESA, will orbit the LISA Pathfinder technology demonstrator, into an elliptical low Earth orbit for a mission to the L1 Lagrange point. Lift-off is scheduled for Wednesday, 2 December 2015, at exactly 0415 UTC.