Satellite News

Rocket: Soyuz-FG; Payload: Soyuz MS-04; Date: 20 April 2017, 0713 UTC; Launch site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The manned transport spacecraft was accurately placed on the target orbit for another mission to the International Space Station.

Rocket: Chang Zheng 7; Payload: Tianzhou 1; Date: 20 April 2017, 1141 UTC; Launch site: Wenchang Space Launch Center, China. Tianzhou-1 is the first cargo ship developed by China Academy of Space Technology (CAST).

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will launch the GSAT-9 communication satellite, also known as South Asia satellite, aboard a GSLV rocket on 5 May from Sriharikota.

Arianespace announced that it will launch Horizons 3e, a satellite belonging to the Horizons joint venture owned by Intelsat and Sky Perfect JSAT.

Rocket: Atlas V; Payload: OA-7/Cygnus; Date: 18 April 2017, 1511 UTC; Launch site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, USA. The mission was flown for Orbital ATK under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services contract and the payload will deliver supplies, equipment and experiments to astronauts aboard the ISS.

Rocket: Chang Zheng 3B/G2; Payload: Shijian-13 [SJ-13, Chinasat-16]; Date: 12 April 2017, 1104 UTC; Launch site: Xichang Satellite Launch Center, China. The country’s first high throughput satellite was deployed into geostationary transfer orbit.

Russia plans to hold two launches from its newest Vostochny space centre in the Far East this December, the head of the Roskosmos space corporation told the Rossiiskaya Gazeta government daily.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. and JAXA have announced the schedule of the launch of Michibiki No. 2, the latest spacecraft in the Quasi-Zenith Satellite System, aboard H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 34.