Satellite News

Rocket: Ariane 5 ECA; Payload: SES-14, Al Yah 3, Date: 25 January 2018, 2220 UTC; Launch site: Kourou, French Guyana. Arianespace confirmed that there had been an anomaly during flight, and the status of the satellites was unknown for some time. However, contact has been established with them. It turned out that it was really just a telemetry outage.

Rocket: Ariane 5 ECA; Payload: SES-14, Al Yah 3, Date: 25 January 2018, 2220 UTC; Launch site: Kourou, French Guyana. Arianespace confirmed that there had been an anomaly during flight, and the status of the satellites was unknown at the time of writing this.

Rocket: Chang Zheng 2C; Payload: three Yaogan-30 satellites, NanoSat 1A satellite; Date: 25 January 2018, 0539 UTC. The satellites have successfully entered their preset orbit.

The team of Glavkosmos and Lavochkin Association has completed assembling of the Soyuz-2.1a Space Head Module (SHM) in Vostochny Assembly & Test Building (ATB).

Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) and Viasat have marked the start of operations of the new Viasat antenna system installed at SSTL’s Guildford headquarters with a ribbon cutting ceremony.