September 2nd, 2019 by
The Vikram Lander successfully separated from the Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter at 0745 UTC on 2 September 2019. Vikram is currently in a lunar orbit of 119 km x 127 km. The Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter continues to orbit the Moon in its existing orbit.
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September 2nd, 2019 by
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) announced that commissioning of NASA’s Deep Space Atomic Clock (DSAC), the primary hosted payload on-board the Orbital Test Bed (OTB) satellite, is now underway. GA-EMS’ OTB was successfully launched on 25 June 2019 on board a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket.
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September 2nd, 2019 by
Russia’s space observatory Spektr-RG, which was launched in July to observe the universe at X-ray wavelengths, has moved away from Earth to a distance of 1.6 million kilometers, according to Dmitry Rogozin, chief of Russia’s space corporation Roskosmos.
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September 2nd, 2019 by
The European Space Agency had to move one of its satellites out of the way to protect it from colliding with a SpaceX Starlink satellite, the space agency just announced on Twitter.
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