Satellite News

A Mishap Investigation Board appointed by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has identified the most likely cause for an instrument issue aboard NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)-17 satellite that launched on 1 March 2018 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

Satellite launches are likely to cost more to insure after the European Vega rocket failure this month, Reuters news agency quoted insurance industry sources as saying.

A failure review board comprised of the satellite’s manufacturer, Boeing Satellite Systems, Inc., Intelsat and external independent experts has completed its analysis of the cause of the Intelsat 29e anomaly in April 2019 that resulted in a total loss of the satellite.

SpaceX issued a statement regarding the explosion of the company’s Crew Dragon In-Flight Abort test vehicle during a test in April. It blames the mishap on the failure of a titanium component in a high-pressure nitrogen tetroxide environment.

Approximately two minutes after the Vega launcher’s lift-off from the Spaceport in French Guiana, a launcher anomaly occurred shortly after ignition of the Zefiro 23 second stage – leading to the premature end of the mission.

UPDATE: A “major anomaly” occurred during the mission that resulted in the loss of the payload. Earlier, Arianespace restarted launch operations for Flight VV15 as weather conditions were improving over the Spaceport in French Guiana.

The attempt to launch a remote sensing Yaogan-33 satellite carried by a Chang Zheng-4C rocket from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center was unsuccessful.

It was confirmed that SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule was completely destroyed in what was originally announced as an “anomaly” during testing on 20 April.