Satellite News

According to International Launch Services, the Briz M upper stage achieved a precise injection orbit of 3,428 x 64,964 km inclined 29.53 degrees, within 1.1 m/s of target, during the recent Intelsat 31 mission.

Rocket: Proton-M/Briz-M; Payload: Intelsat 31 [Intelsat DLA-2]; Date: 9 June 2016, 0710 UTC; Launch site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The ascent unit separated from the Proton’s as planned after a 10-minute flight; however, one of the second stage’s engines had shut down prematurely. The Briz-M upper stage was later able to compensate the performance shortfall. At the time of writing, the upper stage had completed four of its five burns.

A new date has been set for the launch of EchoStar XVIII and BRISat aboard an Ariane 5 ECA.

Today’s scheduled Proton launch of the Intelsat 31 satellite has been postponed owing to an issue associated with electrical ground system equipment at Launch Pad 24.

The lift-off of Flight VA230 has been postponed following an anomaly that occurred prior to the Ariane 5’s roll-out to the launch zone in French Guiana.

The government commission of the state-run corporation Roskosmos may make a final decision regarding the date of launching the manned spacecraft Soyuz MS to the International Space Station on 6 June, TASS reported citing a source in the space rocket industry.

XCOR Aerospace announced that it has decided to focus the majority of its resources on the final development of its liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen (LH2) programme.

The ULA Delta IV NROL-37 launch is now scheduled for 9 June from Space Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.