Satellite News

China plans to set up a commercial rocket-launch company in view of the market’s potential, Xinhua news agency reported.

The launch of a Dragon cargo vessel aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 to the International Space Station has been postponed until April, Administrator of U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Charles Bolden said.

A solar panel on the Russian satellite Resurs P3 has unfolded only partially after the spacecraft reached its orbit but its systems are receiving sufficient power supply, State Space Corporation Roskosmos said.

North Korea’s Kwangmyongsong-4 satellite has apparently been stabilised and is no longer tumbling.

ESA has agreed with NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to make data available to them from the European Sentinel satellites.