Satellite News

Rocket: Soyuz 2-1.a/Fregat; Payload: Sentinel-1B, Microscope, three cubesats; Date: 25 April 2016, 2102 UTC; Launch site: Sinnamary, French Guiana. The main payload, Sentinel-1B, separated from the upper stage after approx. 24 minutes as planned. Deployment of the other payloads was expected several hours into the flight (too late for this issue).

A Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket has been installed at Russia’s new Vostochny Cosmodrome’s launch site ahead of its first space launch, Russia’s Federal Space Agency Roskosmos said in a statement.

The next in a series of GLONASS-M navigation satellites designed and built by Information Satellite Systems – Reshetnev Company has been delivered to the Plesetsk cosmodrome.

The Kepler spacecraft has been recovered and it is back on the job as the K2 mission searching for exoplanets – planets beyond our solar system.

Frequency Electronics, Inc. has been awarded an approximately US$15 million contract to supply multi-frequency timing systems for a US/DOD satellite programme.