Satellite News

Orbital ATK said it has responded to NASA’s needs for enhanced schedule assurance for cargo deliveries and maximum capacity of critical supplies to the space station in 2017 by once again partnering with United Launch Alliance to launch Cygnus aboard an Atlas V for the upcoming OA-7 mission in the spring timeframe.

Antonianna, Lisa, Kimberley and Tijmen – the latest Galileo spacecraft for Europe’s satellite navigation constellation – have been integrated with their Ariane 5 launcher in French Guiana for a 17 November Arianespace mission.

Rocket: H-IIA No. 31; Payload: Himawari-9; Date: 2 November 2016, 0620 UTC; Launch site: Tanegashima Space Center, Japan. The launch vehicle flew as planned, and at approximately 27 minutes and 51 seconds after lift-off, the separation of Himawari-9 was confirmed.

India’s launch of a satellite on behalf of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) has been postponed indefinitely due to disagreements between India and its neighbour Pakistan.

The first spacecraft in a new series of NASA-built advanced geostationary weather satellites is set to launch into orbit aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket on 16 November.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. and JAXA have set a new launch date of the H-IIA No. 31 with the geostationary meteorological satellite “Himawari-9” on board.

Aerojet Rocketdyne has successfully completed a series of hot-fire tests on two Launch Abort Engines (LAE) featuring new propellant valves for Boeing’s Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 Starliner service module propulsion system.

Space Systems Loral (SSL) announced that the JCSAT-15 satellite, which it designed and built for Sky Perfect JSAT Corporation (Sky Perfect JSAT), has arrived at the European Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, where it will be launched aboard an Ariane 5 launch vehicle by Arianespace.