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NASA awards launch services contract for GOES-U mission

September 11th, 2021 by

NASA has selected SpaceX to provide launch services for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-U (GOES-U) mission. GOES-U will provide advanced imagery and atmospheric measurements of Earth’s weather, oceans, and environment, as well as real-time mapping of total lightning activity and improved monitoring of solar activity and space weather.

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Flight ST35 will mark 1,000 satellites launched by Arianespace

September 11th, 2021 by

The next Arianespace mission is planned from Baikonur Cosmodrome with Soyuz on 14 September at 0607 UTC to deliver 34 satellites into orbit, bringing the total OneWeb’s fleet to 322 satellites in Low Earth Orbit.

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China launches Zhongxing-9B satellite

September 11th, 2021 by

Rocket: Chang Zheng 3B; Payload: Zhongxing-9B (Chinasat 9B); Date: 9 September 2021, 1150 UTC; Launch site: Xichang Satellite Launch Center, China. The satellite was deployed into a 206 km x 35,792 km x 24.56 degrees geostationary transfer orbit.

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Soyuz-2.1v lofts new Russian reconnaissance satellite

September 11th, 2021 by

Rocket: Soyuz-2.1v; Payload: Razbeg No. 1 (Kosmos 2551); Date: 9 September 2021, 1959 UTC; Launch site: Plesetsk, Russia. The satellite was placed into a 294 km x 307 km x 96.35 degrees Sun-synchronous orbit.

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