Satellite News

Rocket: Electron/Curie; Payload seven small satellites; Date: 11 November 2018, 0350 UTC; Launch site: Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand. The mission, named ‘It’s Business Time,’ marks Rocket Lab’s second successful orbital launch and deployment of customer satellites.

NASA’s Launch Services Program (LSP) has certified Falcon 9 as a Category 3 launch vehicle.

Spaceflight announced it will launch 12 spacecraft in November from India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV). Payloads aboard the mission include Fleet Space Technologies’ Centauri I, Harris Corporation’s HSAT, Spire’s LEMUR satellites, and BlackSky’s Global-1 microsatellite.

The first rocket Russian company S7 Space is working on at the moment may take place in three years from now, according to the company’s chief, Sergey Sopov.

The Arianespace Soyuz mission that will orbit the third and final spacecraft in EUMETSAT’s current generation polar-orbiting weather satellite programme has been authorised for launch on 7 November (UTC) from the Spaceport in French Guiana.

Rocket: Soyuz-2.1b/Fregat; Payload: Uragan M No. 757 [GLONASS M 757]; Date: 3 November 2018, 2017 UTC; Launch site: Plesetsk, Russia. The Russian Defense Ministry said that the upper stage rocket successfully placed the navigation satellite into orbit after separating from the third stage of the Soyuz-2.1b.

Rocket: Chang Zheng 3B/G2; Payload: Beidou-3G1Q [Beidou-41]; Time: 2 November 2018, 1557 UTC; Launch site: Xichang Satellite Launch Center; China. The navigation satellite was placed into a 184 km x 35,8127 km x 28.5 degrees geostationary transfer orbit.

The two passengers for Arianespace’s next Ariane 5 flight – the GEO-KOMPSAT-2A and GSAT-11 satellites – are now in French Guiana where launch preparations are moving into a new phase for lift-off during December.