Satellite News

Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) announced that it selected United Launch Alliance’s (ULA’s) commercially developed Atlas V rocket to launch the first two missions of its Dream Chaser cargo system in support of NASA’s Cargo Resupply Services 2 (CRS2) contract.

Russia’s Progress Rocket and Space Centre is ready to manufacture new Soyuz-5 medium-class carrier rocket (a.k.a. Feniks), Progress CEO Alexander Kirilin was quoted as saying.

An advance GPS anti-jam navigation system is to be jointly developed and manufactured by Israel Aerospace Industries and Honeywell Aerospace, the companies announced.

Lockheed Martin reported second quarter 2017 financial results.

Rocket: Soyuz 2-1.a/Fregat; Payload: Kanopus-V-IK spacecraft and 72 secondary payloads; Date: 14 July 2017, 0636 UTC; Launch site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The satellites were accurately placed on target orbits during a mission that lasted almost ten hours. This was the eighth Soyuz family launch in 2017.

Blagovest, the new telecommunications satellite designed and built by Information Satellite Systems – Reshetnev Company, has safely arrived at the Baikonur cosmodrome.

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. and DigitalGlobe, Inc. have provided several updates related to the status of the pending acquisition of DigitalGlobe by a wholly owned subsidiary of MDA.

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. announced that the U.S. Government recently awarded its RT Logic subsidiary a Wideband Communications Architecture Study (WCAS) contract to help define the next generation resilient ground architecture for the Department of Defense (DoD).