Satellite News

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have set the date for the launch the H-IIB Launch Vehicle No. 6 (H-IIB F6) with the H-II Transfer Vehicle “Kounotori 6” (HTV 6, a cargo transporter to the International Space Station) onboard.

Payload preparations for Arianespace’s next Ariane 5 dual-passenger mission are moving into full pace with the delivery of the second satellite, Intelsat 36, to French Guiana – joining Intelsat 33e, which arrived earlier this month.

Orbital ATK, Inc. has signed an agreement with European green propulsion technology firm ECAPS to fully develop, demonstrate and market a high performance green propulsion (HPGP) system. The HPGP system, which offers significant cost advantages and dramatically reduces the environmental risks associated with traditional monopropellants, is aimed at both attitude control and main propulsion.

China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) and Shenzhen municipal government in Guangdong Province of China have signed a co-operation agreement on the High Throughput Broadband Satellite (HTS) programme, which marks the initiation of China’s first HTS broadband telecommunications system.

HawkEye 360, Inc., a subsidiary of Allied Minds, and Lockheed Martin are collaborating to apply HawkEye 360’s radio frequency (RF) detection and mapping technology in new markets.

Everything is progressing toward the Atlas V launch carrying the NROL-61 satellite, United Launch Alliance said.

Russia’s Angara rockets in the near future will be able to take about 60% of the launch services world market, as the Proton-M had at its time, Alexander Medvedev, general designer of launch vehicles at the Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center, the manufacturer of Proton and Angara, was quoted as saying.

Rocket: Soyuz-U; Payload: Progress MS-03 [Progress 64]; Date: 16 July 2016, 2141 UTC; Launch site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The Progress cargo spacecraft was accurately placed on the target orbit.