Satellite News

The U.S: National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has concluded the investigation of the Scaled Composites SpaceShipTwo flight test accident on 31 October 2014 . The NTSB is finalising the final recommendations and probable causes.

On 28 June 2015, following a nominal lift-off, Falcon 9 experienced an overpressure event in the upper stage liquid oxygen tank approximately 139 seconds into flight, resulting in loss of mission. The following summary provided by SpaceX represents an initial assessment, but further investigation may reveal more over time, the company said.

Officials from the U.S. Air Force’s 50th Space Wing have completed their operations review of the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Flight 13 that was permanently shut down 3 February 2015, precipitating a debris-causing event. The review determined there were no actions that could have been taken to prevent the incident. The mission is operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on behalf of the U.S. Air Force.

An unmanned SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying supplies to the International Space Station broke apart shortly after lift-off from Cape Canaveral on 28 June 2015, 1421 UTC. NASA officials said they have enough supplies for the three-person crew on board the station to last until October.

An international Earth-observing mission launched in 2011 to study the salinity of the ocean surface ended on 8 June when an essential part of the power and attitude control system for the SAC-D spacecraft stopped operating.

Egypt has lost control of the remote sensing EgyptSat 2 Earth observation satellite. The spacecraft, constructed by RSC Energia for Egypt’s National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences (NARSS), was launched from Baikonur on 16 April 2014.

Roskosmos has released the investigation results of the failed cargo spacecraft launch in April, blaming a design incompatibility for the failure. The flaw was however unique to the particular combination of rocket (Soyuz-2.1a) and payload (Progress M).

Two previous Proton failures are now blamed on the same design flaw hat led to the latest crash of the rocket.