Satellite News

Raytheon will build the Geostationary Littoral Imaging and Monitoring Radiometer, or GLIMR, sensor, under a contract from the University of New Hampshire. GLIMR, NASA’s selected Earth Venture Instrument-5 investigation, will be NASA’s first hyperspectral imager in geostationary, or GEO, orbit.

Arianespace announced the signature of a launch services contract with Ovzon (f.k.a. OverHorizon) for the company’s first geostationary-orbiting telecommunications satellite: Ovzon-3.

New Delhi and Moscow are negotiating the organisation of the India-based production of semi-cryogenic rocket engines using Russian technology for the Indian space programme, ISRO Chairman K. Sivan said in an interview.

The Soyuz MS-13 spacecraft and its crew have completed redocking from the International Space Station (ISS)’s Zvezda module to the Poisk module. The operation to redock the spacecraft was carried out in manual mode.

Kleos Space S.A. announced it has entered into a binding term sheet for a EUR1.83 million debt instrument, to be issued in the form of secured convertible notes.

The launch of a Boeing-developed unmanned Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) was postponed to 6 October from 17 September, and the test launch of a crewed Starliner was rescheduled to 30 December from 30 November a space industry source said.

NASA’s Launch Services Program (LSP) at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida has selected five companies to provide commercial CubeSat dispenser hardware and mission integration services.

The recently launched Soyuz MS-14 on Saturday failed to automatically dock at the ISS on schedule and started retreating from the station. Later, the spacecraft was pulled to a safe distance from the ISS. Roskosmos will make a second attempt to dock to the International Space Station (ISS) in the morning of 27 August.