Satellite News

Rocket: GSLV MkIII-M1; Payload: Chandrayaan-2; Date: 22 July 2019, 0913 UTC; Launch site: Sriharikota, India. The Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft was placed into a 169.7 km x 45,475 km orbit. This was the first operational flight of the GSLV Mk III.

OneWeb Satellites – a joint venture of OneWeb and Airbus – officially opened the world’s first high-volume, high-speed advanced satellite production facility in Florida, USA.

Lockheed Martin has completed building the capsule for NASA’s Orion spacecraft. The crew module capsule for the uncrewed Artemis 1 mission to the Moon has been stacked on top of the Orion service module, which was also recently finished.

Britain said it would scrutinise the acquisition Inmarsat by a private equity-led consortium to examine any potential impact on national security.