Satellite News

Rocket: PSLV-C47; Payload: Cartosat-3, 13 nano satellites; Date: 27 November 2019, 0358 UTC; Launch site: Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) SHAR, Sriharikota, India. After 17 minutes and 38 seconds, Cartosat-3 was successfully injected into a Sun-synchronous orbit of 509 km.

The cargo transport vehicle Progress MS-13 to the International Space Station (ISS) is scheduled to launch on 6 December 2019 at 0934 UTC from Baikonur, while docking with the station was scheduled for 9 December.

On 19 November, U.S. Space Command accepted Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS)-10 into the operational constellation and will be transitioning users to utilise the bandwidth provided by this new satellite.

Due to unfavourable weather conditions over the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, Arianespace has decided to delay the Flight VA250.

Technical problems have been revealed in Russia’s Progress MS-13 cargo spacecraft, scheduled to be launched to the International Space Station (ISS) on 1 December. Although they have meanwhile been rectified, the date of the launch remains uncertain, the Russian State Space Corporation Roskosmos said.

Boeing’s new CST-100 Starliner is now connected to the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket that will launch the spacecraft on its first flight test to the International Space Station. lift-off from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station is targeted for 17 December.

The next Arianespace Ariane 5 flight has been authorised for lift-off on 22 November following a launch readiness review, which was conducted at the Spaceport in French Guiana.

ISRO said the launch of its Earth-imaging and mapping satellite Cartosat-3 along with 13 commercial nano satellites from the US, has been rescheduled to 27 November (UTC).