Satellite News

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.

Rocket: Soyuz-FG; Payload: Soyuz MS-13; Date: 20 July 2019, 1628 UTC; Launch site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. After lift-off, the crewed spaceship entered orbit in approximately nine minutes.

Virgin Orbit has been selected by the U.K.’s Royal Air Force (RAF) to provide responsive launch capabilities for a small satellite constellation Operational Capability Demonstrator through a new RAF project named “ARTEMIS.”

China’s Tiangong-2 space lab successfully re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere on 19 July under controlled conditions.

India’s Chandrayaan2 moon mission will now lift off at 0913 UTC on 22 July, space agency ISRO said, three days after the launch was aborted due to a technical snag in its GSLV-Mk-III rocket.

The qualification tests of the Vulcain 2.1 engine, which will power the Ariane 6 main stage, were completed during the 26th development test.