Satellite News

Rocket: Falcon 9; Payload: Eutelsat 117 West B, ABS-2A; Date: 15 June 2016, 1429 UTC; Launch site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The satellites were deployed into nominal supersynchronous transfer orbit.

Arianespace’s next Ariane 5 flight has been authorised for lift-off on 16 June following a launch readiness review.

ULA successfully delivered the OA-6 Cygnus spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) on 22 March. During the first stage burn, the Atlas V system experienced an anomalous propellant mixture ratio resulting in an early booster shutdown and degradation of first stage performance.

India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, in its thirty sixth flight (PSLV-C34), will launch the 727.5 kg Cartosat-2C satellite for Earth observation and 19 co-passenger satellites with a total mass of about 560 kg at lift-off into a 505 km polar Sun Synchronous Orbit (SSO).

The fifth Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite built by Lockheed Martin for the U.S. Navy was recently encapsulated in its protective launch vehicle fairing. It is scheduled to launch 24 June between 1430 and 1514 UTC aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.

The multipurpose Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) mission recently arrived at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The forthcoming International Space Station (ISS) payload was transported from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, aboard a climate-controlled, air-suspension truck.

Rocket: Delta IV Heavy; Payload: NRO-37; Date: 11 June 2016, 1711 UTC; Launch site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, USA.

Rocket: Chang Zheng 3C; Payload: BeiDou-2 G7; Date: 12 June 2016, 1530 UTC; Launch site: Xichang Satellite Launch Center, China. The navigation satellite was catalogued in a 219 x 34,574 km x 19.3 degrees geostationary transfer orbit.