Satellite News

NanoRacks said it successfully deployed the Kestrel Eye IIM (KE2M) microsatellite via the company’s Kaber Microsatellite Deployer (Kaber) from the International Space Station. This is the largest satellite that NanoRacks has deployed to date, and the first deployed from the Kaber deployer.

Lockheed Martin reported financial results for the third quarter 2017.

Aerojet Rocketdyne has test-fired its RS-25 engine, E2063, for 500 seconds at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. This is the second RS-25 engine Aerojet Rocketdyne has tested for NASA’s second Exploration Mission (EM-2).

NASA has authorised a second extension of the Dawn mission at Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

UrtheCast Corp., its subsidiary Deimos Imaging and e-GEOS (a company owned by Telespazio and the Italian Space Agency) announced a strategic partnership to offer a combination of joint optical and radar sensors with ground stations.

NASA has selected United Launch Services to provide launch services for the Landsat 9 mission.

NASA has selected Space Exploration Technologies to provide launch services for the Sentinel-6A mission. Launch is currently targeted for November 2020, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 Full Thrust rocket from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

Iridium Communications Inc. announced that the fourth Iridium NEXT launch has been targeted by SpaceX for 23 December 2017 at 0126 UTC from Vandenberg Air Force Base.