Satellite News

Rocket: PSLV-C31; Payload: IRNSS-1E; Date: 20 January 2016, 0401 UTC; Launch site: Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) SHAR, Sriharikota, India. The navigation satellite was placed into a 288 km x 20566 km x 19.2 degrees transfer orbit.

Russia’s state commission has not yet made a decision to postpone the launch of the Proton-M carrier rocket with the European communications satellite Eutelsat 9B from 27 January to 29 January (UTC), a source at the Baikonur Cosmodrome said according to TASS.

The first launch of a Soyuz-2 from Russia’s new Vostochny spaceport may be carried out in the second half of April, head of the State Corporation for Space Activity Roskosmos Igor Komarov was quoted as saying.

The U.S. Air Force Space Command’s Space and Missile Systems Center and the 460th Space Wing have confirmed the Remote Sensing Systems Directorate’s ongoing success of the Space-Based Infrared System’s Block 10 Integrated Test and Evaluation (IT&E) Readiness comprehensive evaluation.

LeoSat Enterprises, an emerging company with plans to launch a constellation of up to 108 low-earth-orbit communications satellites, has announced the appointment of Ronald van der Breggen as Chief Commercial Officer. In this position Ronald will be responsible for managing the global sales and marketing operations of LeoSat.