Satellite News

The launch of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V carrying the NROL-52 mission was scrubbed today due to ground winds that prevented launch.

SpaceX confirmed that the launch of SES-11/EchoStar 105 aboard a used Falcon 9 was delayed several days.

The Koreasat-5A communications satellite has arrived at the Cape Canaveral space centre in Florida. Built by Thales Alenia Space for South Korean operator KTSAT (a KT Corporation company), Koreasat-5A will be orbited by SpaceX in the weeks to come, using a Falcon 9 launcher.

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. announced it has completed its acquisition of DigitalGlobe, Inc.

Lockheed Martin said it completed the first flight build of its new Multi-mission Modular (MM) Solar Array. This new flexible array advances Lockheed Martin’s significant heritage flying flexible arrays on such programmes as the International Space Station and a constellation for the U.S. Air Force.

A Ukrainian-made Zenit carrier rocket, loaded with the AngoSat-1 satellite built at Angola’s request, will be launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome on 7 December, RSC Energia said.

Satellite rideshare and mission management provider Spaceflight announced it was awarded its first NASA Kennedy Space Center Contract (KSC) for launch and integration services.

Teledyne Technologies Incorporated announced that Teledyne Brown Engineering’s Multi-User System for Earth Sensing (MUSES) aboard the International Space Station (ISS) has achieved full operating capability (FOC).