Satellite News

Rocket: Soyuz FG; Payload: Soyuz MS-09 [Soyuz 55S]; Date: 6 June 2018, 1112 UTC; Launch site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The Soyuz MS-09 manned transport spacecraft was accurately placed on the target orbit for another mission to the International Space Station.

Launch vehicle elements for Arianespace’s third Ariane 5 flight at the service of Europe’s Galileo global satellite navigation system, which is planned for July, have been delivered to the Spaceport.

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is back “awake” and being prepared for the farthest planetary encounter in history – a New Year’s Day 2019 flyby of the Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule.

Northrop Grumman Corporation announced that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has cleared Northrop Grumman’s proposed acquisition of Orbital ATK Inc.