Satellite News

The Angosat-2 telecoms satellite that Russia is developing for Angola will be orbited in March 2022, Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems company General Director Nikolai Testoyedov was quoted as saying. The company is now making the satellite platform, he added.

A contract for the serial production of the latest GLONASS-K2 satellites for Russia’s global GLONASS orbital navigation system will be signed in 2021, CEO of the Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems company (the satellites’ producer) Nikolai Testoyedov said.

Eutelsat Communications and Sky Italia have reached a strategic agreement for the renewal of Sky’s capacity contract at Eutelsat’s Hotbird position.

Rocket Lab has been granted a five-year Launch Operator License by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for Electron missions from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2.

An Arianespace Vega rocket will launch tonight, Sept. 2, to prove its ability to launch 53 small satellites at once. You can watch it live here.

Arianespace’s Vega rocket is scheduled to launch from the Guiana Space Center tonight (Sept. 2) at 9:51 p.m. EDT, carrying 53 satellites into orbit.

NASA’s new Space Launch System (SLS) rocket finished a full-scale flight support booster test Wednesday (Sept. 2) as the agency gets ready to fly astronauts to the moon one day.

A commercial spacecraft that has been designed to launch people on brief trips into space has inspired a new creative use — as a canvas for artwork.