Satellite News

For its third flight with Ariane 5 this year, Arianespace will orbit two telecommunications satellites for long-term customers: Intelsat 39, for the operator Intelsat; and the EDRS-C satellite, based on a public-private partnership between the European Space Agency (ESA) and Airbus.

H-II Transfer Vehicle KOUNOTORI8, the Japanese cargo transporter to the International Space Station (ISS), will launch aboard the H-IIB Vehicle No. 8 on 10 September 2019 (UTC).

China said it successfully tested the technology that can accurately control the landing site of falling rocket parts, making progress toward reusable launch vehicles in the future, China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) said.

The third Earth bound orbit raising manoeuvre for Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft has been performed successfully on 29 July 2019 at 0942 UTC as planned.

Aireon LLC announced that The Airports Authority of India (AAI) has signed a contract to implement Aireon’s space-based air traffic surveillance service in Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata’s oceanic airspaces.