Satellite News

The European Space Agency (ESA) and the Roskosmos Space Corporation have decided to postpone the launch of the second ExoMars mission to study the Red Planet to 2022.

Kymeta and Kepler Communications announced that they have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding to integrate Kepler’s Global Data Service into the just-announced Kymeta u8 Terminal and Kymeta Connect offering.

Spaceflight announced it is providing mission management and rideshare integration services for four organisations on Arianespace’s first dedicated rideshare mission on its Vega launch vehicle.

Rocket Lab has signed a deal to launch a dedicated mission for Capella Space, an aerospace and information services company providing Earth observation data on demand.

The U.S. Air Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center’s Launch Enterprise Mission Manifest Office delivered a fully tested and integrated multi-manifest small satellite vehicle, known as TDO-2, to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station for launch on the Advance Extremely High Frequency (AEHF)-6 mission.

The U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) at Los Angeles Air Force Base has awarded Lockheed Martin a US$240 million contract to develop a prototype payload for its new Protected Tactical SATCOM (PTS) system.

Arianespace announced a preorder from the European Space Agency (ESA), on behalf of the European Commission (DG Grow), for four launches using the Ariane 6 rocket. Planned to start in January 2022, these launches will orbit eight satellites from Batch 3 to support the final deployment of the Galileo constellation and the replacement of certain satellites.

This year’s first launch of a Proton-M rocket with Ekspress-80 and Ekspress-103 communications satellites from the Baikonur spaceport has been postponed to late May owing to problems with the rocket’s components, Khrunichev Space Center Director General Alexei Varochko was quoted as saying.