Satellite News

The propulsion system of the light-weight Angara 1.2 Launch Vehicle Service Module, manufactured by the Khrunichev Space Center (part of Roskosmos State Corporation), completed successful hot-fire testing at the Federal State Enterprise “Rocket & Space Industry Research & Test Center” (RSI RTC) test facility (Peresvet, Moscow Region).

Four new O3b satellites have arrived safely at the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana, in preparation for launch by a Soyuz vehicle in March 2018.

SES and Yahsat have confirmed that SES-14 and Al Yah 3 have been acquired and are operating in orbit nominally, despite a trajectory deviation experienced during the VA241 launch. The upcoming launch campaigns currently underway at the Guiana Space Centre (CSG) proceed as scheduled.

Rocket: Ariane 5 ECA; Payload: SES-14, Al Yah 3, Date: 25 January 2018, 2220 UTC; Launch site: Kourou, French Guyana. Arianespace confirmed that there had been an anomaly during flight, and the status of the satellites was unknown at the time of writing this.

Rocket: Ariane 5 ECA; Payload: SES-14, Al Yah 3, Date: 25 January 2018, 2220 UTC; Launch site: Kourou, French Guyana. Arianespace confirmed that there had been an anomaly during flight, and the status of the satellites was unknown for some time. However, contact has been established with them. It turned out that it was really just a telemetry outage.

Rocket: Chang Zheng 2C; Payload: three Yaogan-30 satellites, NanoSat 1A satellite; Date: 25 January 2018, 0539 UTC. The satellites have successfully entered their preset orbit.

The team of Glavkosmos and Lavochkin Association has completed assembling of the Soyuz-2.1a Space Head Module (SHM) in Vostochny Assembly & Test Building (ATB).

Rocket Lab said it has successfully tested a previously unannounced kick stage on the Still Testing Electron launch vehicle, using it to circularise the orbits of the two Spire Lemur-2 CubeSats on board. Plus, there was a previously unannounced fourth satellite on board.