Satellite News

SES announced that, following a significant anomaly, the company is in the process of transferring capacity from its AMC-9 satellite.

India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, in its 40th flight (PSLV-C38), will launch the 712-kg Cartosat-2 series satellite for Earth observation and 30 co-passenger satellites into a 505 km polar Sun Synchronous Orbit (SSO) on 23 June 0359 UTC.

OHB Italia Spa and Arianespace announced the signature of the launch contract for the Italian Space Agency’s PRISMA (PRecursore IperSpettrale della Missione Applicativa) satellite. [Not to be confused with a Swedish satellite named Prisma that was launched in 2010.–Ed.]

SpaceX said the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket with BulgariaSat-1 aboard, previously scheduled for today, was delayed to no earlier than 23 June.

Thales Alenia Space confirmed its acquisition of a minority stake in French company Airstar Aerospace, a leader in the construction of airships and flexible structures of all types and operating at all altitudes.

Orbital ATK, along with NASA and Lockheed Martin, successfully performed a ground firing test of the abort motor for NASA’s Orion spacecraft Launch Abort System (LAS) at Orbital ATK’s facility in Promontory, Utah.

Rocket: Soyuz 2.1a; Payload: Progress MS-06 [ISS Progress 67]; Date: 15 June 2017, 0920:13 UTC; Launch site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The Progress transport cargo vehicle was successfully put into low Earth orbit and is headed for the International Space Station (ISS).

Following the launch of the first ten Iridium NEXT satellites in January 2017, their commissioning has proceeded very smoothly, as they passed all in-orbit tests.