Satellite News

Rocket: Soyuz-2.1a; Payload: Progress MS-07 [Progress P 68]; Date: 14 October 2017, 0846 UTC; Launch site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The Progress MS-07 cargo spacecraft was accurately placed on the target orbit for the ISS resupplying mission. This was the twelfth Soyuz family mission in 2017.

Rocket: Atlas V; Payload: NROL-52; Date: 15 October 2017, 0728 UTC; Launch site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, USA. Officials said the classified payload was successfully launched on behalf of the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO).

The first full-scale model of the rocket motor that will propel Ariane 6 and Vega-C into orbit has been cast and filled with inert propellant for testing at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.