Satellite News

Rocket: Chang Zheng 3B/G2; Payload: Shijian-13 [SJ-13, Chinasat-16]; Date: 12 April 2017, 1104 UTC; Launch site: Xichang Satellite Launch Center, China. The country’s first high throughput satellite was deployed into geostationary transfer orbit.

Russia plans to hold two launches from its newest Vostochny space centre in the Far East this December, the head of the Roskosmos space corporation told the Rossiiskaya Gazeta government daily.

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has entered a hibernation phase on 7 April that will last until early September.

Raytheon has completed an upgrade and final testing of the data transport and processing system for the Joint Polar Satellite System Common Ground System which provides weather and environmental data used by NASA, NOAA, the U.S. Department of Defense and the agencies’ international partners.

The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Microwave Imager (GMI), designed and built by Ball Aerospace for NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, is entering its fourth year of service.