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Rocket maker Skyroot Aerospace Private Ltd’s Vikram-1 rocket is slated to lift off from a mobile launch pad or transporter, erector and launcher (TEL), a company official said. The Hyderabad-based company is planning to test launch its rocket with a couple of satellites by the end of this year, he added.

Orbex has submitted its application to the UK’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) for a launch licence, the latest stage on its roadmap to beginning commercial space launches from the UK.

Arianespace is back to the Guiana Space Center (CSG) with Soyuz for a 10 February lift-off. The first Arianespace mission of the year will orbit 34 additional OneWeb satellites.

Rocket: Falcon 9; Payload: 49 Starlink satellites (Starlink 4-7); Date: 3 February 2022, 1813 UTC; Launch site: Kennedy Space Center, USA.

Rocket: Falcon 9; Payload: NROL-87; Date: 2 February 2022, 2027 UTC; Launch site: Vandenberg Space Force Base, USA. The customer, the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office [NRO], declared success on the mission.

A new data compression algorithm developed by Russian Space Systems (part of the Roskosmos state space corporation) will help boost satellite data transmission tenfold, Roskosmos announced.

The German Earth observation satellite EnMAP (Environmental Mapping and Analysis Program) is scheduled for launch early April 2022 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center.

Telesat and Cobham SATCOM (formerly Thrane & Thrane) have announced an agreement to deploy high-performance Cobham SATCOM three-axis TRACKER 4000 terminals for the Telesat Lightspeed Landing Station network.

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