Satellite News

Northrop Grumman Corporation has been awarded two additional missions by NASA under the Commercial Resupply Services contract-2 (CRS-2) with launches occurring in 2023.

The launch of the South Korean Earth observation satellite CAS500-1 from the Baikonur space centre aboard a Soyuz 2.1a is scheduled for March 2021, Glavkosmos Launch Services was quoted as saying.

Teledyne e2v will supply image sensors and detectors to the recently announced grouped proposal of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) industrial policy committee to place six Copernicus Sentinel satellite missions in space. As the sensor partner for Thales Alenia Space, the UK team will develop, manufacture and supply variants of their CapellaCMOS visible image sensor from Chelmsford.

Kleos Space S.A. announced that it has received commitments to raise A$19 million (equivalent to EUR11.7 million or US$13.8 million) via a placement of approximately 26,388,889 new ordinary fully paid CDIs.

United Launch Alliance is delaying the launch of an Atlas V mission 24 hours due to inclement weather from Hurricane Eta.

The seasonal ozone hole over the Antarctic will persist well into November, according to satellite and weather balloon observations from NASA and NOAA.

The four astronauts scheduled to launch to the International Space Station on SpaceX’s next crewed mission Saturday (Nov. 14) say they are ready to fly.

The EmDrive doesn’t just violate our fundamental understanding of the universe; the experiments that claim to measure an effect haven’t been replicated. When it comes to the EmDrive, keep dreaming.