Satellite News

Rocket: Ariane 5 ECA; Payload: Intelsat 29e; Date: 27 January 2016, 2320 UTC; Launch site: Kourou, French Guiana. The satellite was successfully placed into its targeted geostationary transfer orbit 30 minutes after lift-off.

Rocket: Ariane 5 ECA; Payload: Intelsat 29e; Date: 27 January 2016, 2320 UTC; Launch site: Kourou, French Guiana. The satellite was successfully placed into its targeted geostationary transfer orbit 30 minutes after lift-off.

The launch of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying the GPS IIF-12 mission has been delayed to no earlier than 4 February.

Millennium Space Systems has inked a contract for launch services with NanoRacks LLC of Webster, Texas, to launch its ALTAIR-1 Pathfinder satellite into Low Earth Orbit (LEO) this summer via cargo resupply to the International Space Station (ISS).

Eurockot announced that a delay in launch system infrastructure certification calls for a pause of activities in the Sentinel 3A launch campaign.

The second Ariane 5 for launch by Arianespace in 2016 has begun taking shape at French Guiana, as build-up of the heavy-lift vehicle is now underway in the Spaceport’s Launcher Integration Building.

Lt. Gen. Samuel Greaves, U.S. Air Force Program Executive Officer for Space and Space and Missile Systems Center commander, updated the certified baseline configuration of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Launch System to Falcon 9 Upgrade, for use in National Security Space (NSS) missions. The baseline configuration of the Falcon 9 Launch System was updated to the Falcon 9 Upgrade on 25 January.

The launch of a Proton launch vehicle with the Eutelsat 9B satellite has been delayed two days due to weather-related logistical issues associated with the nominal delivery of the second stage solid retro rockets.