Satellite News

Arianespace’s fourth Ariane 5 flight of 2016 has been given the “green light” for lift-off on 24 August following a successful launch readiness review, which was conducted at the Spaceport in French Guiana.

After delivering almost 2,250 kg of supplies, experiments and equipment – including a docking adapter for future U.S. commercial crew spacecraft – a SpaceX Dragon cargo craft is set to leave the International Space Station on 26 August.

Northrop Grumman Corporation has been awarded a contract from OHB System AG to supply the space inertial reference system for Germany’s SARah satellite-based radar reconnaissance system.

Rocket: Delta IV Medium+ (4,2); Payload: GSSAP-3, GSSAP-4; Date: 19 August 2016, 0452 UTC; Launch site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, USA. The two Orbital ATK-built satellites were successfully deployed following their launch.

Aerojet Rocketdyne successfully completed additional testing of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) RS-25 development engine 0528, at NASA Stennis Space Center in Mississippi.

The U.S. Air Force Space Command’s Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program (GSSAP) satellites were recently tasked to support the U.S. Navy’s ongoing Mobile User Objective System-5 anomaly effort after the satellite failed to reach its target geosynchronous orbit.

An ESA tracking station has acquired signals from the international Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn, across more than 1.4 billion km of space.

RSC Energia and Boeing have reached an agreement to solve the dispute over the Sea Launch project, Energia’s General Director Vladimir Solntsev said.