Satellite News

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.

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.