Satellite News

Vector Space Systems has finalised an agreement with York Space Systems, an aerospace company specialising in small and medium class spacecraft, to conduct six satellite launches from 2019 through 2022 with the option for 14 additional launches.

The ExoMars 2016 mission reached another major milestone on 16 October as the Schiaparelli lander separated from the TGO, or Trace Gas Orbiter.

Mission managers for NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter have decided to postpone the upcoming burn of its main rocket motor originally scheduled for 19 October.

Swedish Space Corporation has sold 100% of the shares of NanoSpace AB, a wholly owned subsidiary of SSC, to GS Sweden AB, the parent company of GomSpace ApS.

Thales Alenia Space Spain has signed a contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) for the preliminary technological development of a thermal infrared imaging instrument.

A new-series crew transportation spacecraft Soyuz MS-02 developed and built by RSC Energia was transported as a part of the upper composite to the site where it will be integrated with the launch vehicle Soyuz-FG.

United Launch Alliance and Boeing unveiled an updated aerodynamic configuration of the Atlas V that will launch Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner crew capsule for NASA after encountering challenges with aerodynamic stability and loads.

The China Academy of Space Technology has announced plans to launch the world’s first X-ray pulsar navigation satellite (XPNAV-1) in November, Xinhua reported. The move brings autonomous spacecraft navigation and a more precise deep-space GPS one step closer to reality.