Satellite News

Orbex has announced that it is partnering with UK-based Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL) to carry an experimental payload on its maiden flight from Scotland in 2021.

Arianespace has not accepted the offer by the Russian Lavochkin Research and Production Association to “patch up” the rupture in the pipeline that supplies helium to fuel tanks of the Fregat booster on the Soyuz-ST carrier rocket at the Guiana space centre, a source in the rocket and space industry was quoted as saying by Sputnik.

Rocket: Ariane 5 ECA; Payload: Saudi Geostationary Satellite 1/Hellas Sat 4, GSAT-31; Date: 5 February 2019, 2101 UTC; Launch site: Kourou, French Guiana. HS-4/SGS-1 was deployed into geostationary transfer orbit 27 minutes after lift-off, followed by GSAT-31 15 minutes later.

ArianeGroup said it just finalised the Definition Review of the Prometheus engine demonstrator with the support of the European Space Agency, CNES and DLR on 1 February 2019.

Russian State Space Corporation Roskosmos has finally approved the design of the Yenisei super-heavy class launch vehicle for future lunar missions, a Russian space industry source was quoted as saying by Sputnik.

NASA has selected United Launch Services LLC (ULS) to provide launch services for the agency’s first-ever mission to explore Trojan asteroids.

Russian specialists at the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana have eliminated a micro-hole on the Fregat booster intended to deliver OneWeb satellites into orbit.

The Shetland Space Centre announced a major partnership with ArianeGroup.