Satellite News

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. and JAXA announced the launch schedule of H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 34 (H-IIA F34) which encapsulates Michibiki No. 2.

Processing of Proton-M ILV and EchoStar-21 spacecraft for launch is currently underway at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. The spacecraft was manufactured by SSL for EchoStar Corporation.

Iridium Communications said that the second launch for the Iridium NEXT satellite constellation has been moved earlier, and is now targeted for 25 June 2017 at 2024:59 UTC with an instantaneous launch window.

Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) successfully passed the third integration milestone for the Dream Chaser programme under the NASA Commercial Resupply Services (CRS2) programme, bringing it a major step closer to providing resupply services to the International Space Station (ISS).

Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) successfully passed the third integration milestone for the Dream Chaser programme under the NASA Commercial Resupply Services (CRS2) programme, bringing it a major step closer to providing resupply services to the International Space Station (ISS).

NASA commercial cargo provider SpaceX is targeting its eleventh commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station for 2155 UTC on 1 June.

NASA commercial cargo provider SpaceX is targeting its eleventh commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station for 2155 UTC on 1 June.

Rocket: Soyuz 2-1b/Fregat-M; Payload: EKS 2/Tundra 12L [Kosmos 2518]; Date: 25 May 2017, 0634 UTC; Launch Site: Plesetsk, Russia. The Russian Defense Ministry said the flight went normally and delivered the early warning satellite to its intended orbit.