Satellite News

‘We can now confirm the mission is lost.”

Two Russian cosmonauts are taking a spacewalk outside the International Space Station Wednesday (Nov. 18), and you can watch it live here, beginning at 9:30 a.m. EST (1430 GMT).

An Arianespace Vega rocket will launch two satellites from French Guiana today (Nov. 16) at 8:52 p.m. EST (0152 GMT on Nov. 17). Watch it live here!

While en route to the International Space Station, the four astronauts of NASA’s Crew-1 mission — along with special passenger Baby Yoda — showed viewers around their SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft.

Rocket: Falcon 9; Payload: Crew Dragon; Date: 16 November 2020, 0027 UTC; Launch site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, USA. The Crew-1 mission is the first of six crewed missions NASA and SpaceX will fly as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program.

The Eutelsat KONNECT telecommunication satellite is now operational in orbit. Built by Thales Alenia Space and launched by Arianespace on 17 January, this high throughput satellite reached its geostationary orbit on 22 July, seven months after lift-off. The satellite then underwent a battery of tests in orbit, to be now fully operational.

Viasat Inc. and Infostellar Inc., a Japanese Ground Segment as a Service (GSaaS) start-up, announced it signed a Real-Time Earth (RTE) agreement.

An Arianespace Vega rocket will launch two satellites from French Guiana today (Nov. 16) at 8:52 p.m. EST (0152 GMT on Nov. 17). Watch it live here!