Satellite News

SES and SpaceX announced they have reached an agreement to launch SES-10 on a used Falcon 9 orbital rocket booster.

The first Ariane 5 rocket modified to carry four Galileo satellites into orbit has arrived at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana for a November launch.

Sea Launch may use a yet-to-be developed Russian rocket to replace the mainly Ukrainian-made Zenit carriers, the head of the Russian space rocket corporation Energia said.

The first experimental mission of ISRO’s scramjet engine towards the realisation of an air breathing propulsion system was successfully conducted on 28 August 2016 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota. Thus, India became the fourth country to demonstrate the flight testing of a scramjet engine.

NASA’s Juno mission has successfully executed its first of 36 orbital flybys of Jupiter at an altitude of about 4,200 kilometers above Jupiter’s swirling clouds. At the time, Juno was travelling at 208,000 kilometers per hour with respect to the planet. This flyby was the closest Juno will get to Jupiter during its prime mission.

SES Government Solutions was recently awarded a contract to provide an O3b Networks high throughput, low latency satellite communications solution for a U.S. Department of Defense end-user.

SpaceX’s Dragon cargo spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean at 1547 UTC on 26 August southwest of Baja California with more than 1,350 kg of NASA cargo, science and technology demonstration samples from the International Space Station.

NASA has selected United Launch Services to provide launch services for the Mars 2020 mission, currently targeted for launch in July 2020 aboard an Atlas V 541 rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.