Satellite News

Rocket: Soyuz 2.1-a; Payload: Meridian 8 (Meridian No. 18L); Date: 30 July 2019, 0556 UTC; Launch site: Plesetsk, Russia. The governmental spacecraft was accurately placed on the target orbit. This was the tenth Soyuz family mission in 2019.

Russia’s cargo spacecraft Progress MS-11, which separated from the International Space Station earlier on Monday, has been dumped in the southern part of the Pacific Ocean, the press-service of the Central Research Institute of Machine Building TsNIIMash said.

The Characterising Exoplanet Satellite, Cheops, has successfully passed the final analysis review for its launch on a Soyuz rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.

Backed by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Netherlands Space Office via the ARTES programme, HiberDrive is a new 1U-size Attitude and Orbit Control System (AOCS) for CubeSats.

Intelsat S.A. announced financial results for the three and six months ending 30 June 2019.