Satellite News

The next in a series of GLONASS-M navigation satellites designed and built by Information Satellite Systems – Reshetnev Company has been delivered to the Plesetsk cosmodrome.

The launch of Sentinel-1B and a few piggyback satellites aboard a Soyuz 2-1a from French Guiana has been rescheduled for 23 April.

China will launch about 150 of its Chang Zheng rockets over the next five years, one of its space chiefs was quoted as saying.

The inaugural launch of a modernised Proton-M rocket from Baikonur may be delayed for several weeks, Interfax news agency reported citing a source from the rocket and space industry.

Orbital ATK, Inc. announced that the company’s Iuka, Mississippi, manufacturing plant has produced its 500th large composite rocket structure for United Launch Alliance (ULA) launch vehicles.

The Soyuz for Arianespace’s next medium-lift mission has arrived at the launch zone in French Guiana, where it stands ready to receive the multi-satellite payload that will be lofted on 22 April.

China is ready to share radiation-resistant electronic components used in spacecraft construction with Russia in exchange for the technology of building liquid-fuel rocket engines, a senior Roskosmos official told Izvestia newspaper. However, he thinks that such a deal would currently make sense.

The collaboration between Arianespace and its Russian partners continues normally amid Western sanctions imposed on Russia, President of Arianespace, Inc. Clayton Mowry was quoted as saying by Sputnik news agency.