Satellite News

Rocket: Chang Zheng 11H (Y2); Payload: nine Jilin-1 Gaofen 03-1 smallsats; Date: 15 September 2020, 0123 UTC; Launch site: De Bo 3 launch platform, Yellow Sea, China.

ESA has awarded a EUR129.4 million contract covering the detailed design, manufacturing and testing of Hera, the Agency’s first mission for planetary defence. This ambitious mission will be Europe’s contribution to an international asteroid deflection effort, set to perform sustained exploration of a double asteroid system. The contract has been awarded to a consortium led by prime contractor OHB System AG in Bremen.

NovelSat and Spacecom, operator of the Amos satellite fleet, announced the successful demonstration of high capacity satellite transmission with spectral efficiency of 10.5 bit/Hz over Amos-17 high performance HTS utilising NovelSat Duet CEC (carrier-echo-cancellation) band reuse technology.

As Earth’s twin, Venus offers much in the search for life and habitable worlds.

We’re officially nine months into solar cycle 25, scientists have confirmed, and it will likely look much like its predecessor, which ran from 2008 to 2019.

The second season of the live-action “Star Wars” spin off is set to arrive on Oct. 30.

Glen was in his algebra class in New Jersey when a teacher ran in and said something terrible had just happened. Daniel was also in a math class, but in Wyoming, when word came to turn on the TV. Steven was at his California elementary school watching live.

Some far-off alien planets could be made of diamonds, scientists say in a new study.