Satellite News

The launch date for the NORL-71 mission to be flown aboard a ULA Delta IV Heavy from Vandenberg Air Force Base is still under review.

Russia plans to launch rockets produced by enterprises of Roskosmos 45 times in 2019, a two-fold increase compared with 2018, a source in the aerospace industry was quoted as saying.

NanoRacks has signed its first customer contract for a small satellite rideshare on the India Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV).

China’s Chang’e-4 lunar probe, launched in December, performed a “soft landing” on 3 December 2018 at 0226 UTC and transmitted the first-ever “close range” image of the far side of the moon, the China National Space Administration said.

India’s second Moon mission Chandrayaan-2 has been delayed again, officials said. “The next launch date of Chandrayaan-2 has not been confirmed yet,” a spokesman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said.

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew past Ultima Thule in the early hours of New Year’s Day, ushering in the era of exploration from the enigmatic Kuiper Belt.

On 31 December , NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, 110 million kilometers away, carried out a single, eight-second burn of its thrusters – and entered into orbit around the asteroid Bennu, which thus became the smallest object ever to be orbited by a spacecraft.

China’s Chang’e-4 probe has entered a planned orbit to prepare for the first-ever soft landing on the far side of the moon, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) announced.