Satellite News

Rocket: Atlas 5; Payload: GPS IIF-12 [GPS SVN-70]; Date: 5 February 2016, 1338 UTC; Launch site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, USA. About three hours and 23 minutes after lift-off, the spacecraft was released into a 20,438 km x 20,442 km x 55.0 degrees orbit. Signal acquisition was confirmed at 1709 UTC.

Kazakhstan’s upper house of parliament ratified a protocol, introducing amendments to the 1999 intergovernmental agreement with Russia on procedures in the event of an accident occurring during a rocket launch from the Baikonur space centre, local media reported.