Satellite News

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. and JAXA announce the launch schedule of the H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 32 with X-band defence communication satellite-2 (DSN-2, Kirameki-2).

The launch of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V carrying the SBIRS GEO Flight 3 mission was scrubbed today due to a violation of Eastern Range safety criteria.

Activity for Arianespace’s initial mission in 2017 with the lightweight Vega is fully underway in French Guiana, where the launch vehicle’s build-up is starting and its Sentinel-2B payload has begun the pre-flight checkout process in preparation for an early March lift-off.

The 27 January (UTC) launch date for a United Launch Alliance Atlas V carrying NROL-79 for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office is under review.

SES-10, the 10th Eurostar satellite built by Airbus Defence and Space for SES, has left the Airbus cleanrooms in Toulouse, France, and has been shipped to Cape Canaveral for its forthcoming launch by SpaceX.

JAXA has postponed the launch of a mini rocket that will put a satellite into space because of strong wind, an agency spokeswoman said.

The U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center sponsored ninth Wideband Global SATCOM spacecraft has arrived at Titusville-Cocoa Airport, Florida. WGS-9 will provide additional communications capabilities to both U.S. forces and international partners.

The U.S. Air Force’s next Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO) satellite, built by Lockheed Martin, was encapsulated on 7 January at Cape Canaveral, Florida, where it will launch on 20 January (UTC) aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.