Satellite News

Arianespace has given the “green light” for its Vega launch on 17 November (UTC) which will orbit a pair of European-built satellites: Spain’s SEOSAT-Ingenio and TARANIS of France.

NASA is now targeting 1717 UTC on Saturday, 21 November for the launch of the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite, the first of two identical satellites to head into Earth orbit five years apart to continue sea level observations for at least the next decade.

OHB Italia, a subsidiary of space and technology group OHB SE, signed a contract appointing OHB Italia as one of the two prime contractors performing a study of the Comet Interceptor mission, a new fast-class, deep space mission led by the European Space Agency.

The UK subsidiary of SSC (Swedish Space Corporation) has been awarded a contract by the European Space Agency ESA to develop a next generation concept for space to ground communications targeting the “NewSpace” (CubeSats and SmallSats) market.

SpaceX’s Crew-1 astronaut mission for NASA is now scheduled to launch to the space station Sunday (Nov. 15) at 7:27 p.m. EST (0027 Nov. 16 GMT). Watch it live here!

The Mandalorian visits the estuary moon of Trask in “Chapter 11: The Heiress” and finds an important character in the “Star Wars” universe.

On Nov. 15, 1988, a 300-foot radio telescope in Green Bank, West Virginia suddenly collapsed. See how it happened in our “On This Day In Space” series!

SpaceX will launch a crew of four astronauts today (Nov. 15) on its first operational flight for NASA and you can watch the historic flight online.