Satellite News

Rocket: Soyuz-2.1b/Fregat; Payload: Gonets-M No. 27, Gonets-M No. 28, Gonets-M No. 29, 19 smallsats; Date: 28 September 2020, 1120 UTC; Launch site: Plesetsk, Russia. The Fregat upper stage deployed three Gonets satellites in their operational high-inclination orbit, followed by the release of secondary payloads into Sun-synchronous orbit. [Exact figures were not available at the time of writing.–Ed.]

Northrop Grumman Corporation is set to launch the company’s 14th resupply mission (NG-14) to the International Space Station under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services-2 contract.

ArianeGroup has just signed several agreements with Airbus Defence and Space for the adaptation and construction of the third European Service Module (ESM) flight model for the Orion spacecraft.

We finally know what kind of radiation environment future moonwalkers will be stepping into.

NASA astronaut Kate Rubins will vote in the upcoming presidential election from space.

The full moon of October 2020 also carries the title of the Harvest Moon for those living in the Northern Hemisphere.

Remnants of water once found on the surface of Mars may be hidden in a handful of small lakes below the Red Planet’s south pole, and more could exist, according to new research.

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine says the landing system and rocket for Artemis need to be ready next year for the agency to achieve a crewed moon landing in 2024.