Satellite News

Officials on Friday scrubbed the launch of Rocket Lab Electron rocket from New Zealand.

Russia’s Progress MS-12 cargo spacecraft, undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday and burned up as scheduled during reentry into the Earth’s atmosphere, with its debris landing in the Pacific Ocean, a representative of the main research arm of the Russian State Space Corporation Roskosmos said.

China’s first seismo-electromagnetic satellite Zhangheng 1 has successfully obtained electromagnetic data, according to the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC).

General Dynamics Mission Systems has been awarded a US$731.8 million cost-plus-award-fee and firm-fixed-price indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity sole-source contract for the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) ground system sustainment.

KT Corp. said its satellite-operating subsidiary, KT SAT, has successfully conducted the world’s first 5G data transmission with a satellite connection.