Satellite News

Eutelsat has updated its launch schedule, which includes a record four satellites to be launched in the coming four months of a total of seven satellites to launch by 2019.

Russia and Kazakhstan will decide which type of rocket to use for the Baiterek [aka Baitarek] Space Complex under construction within the next two months, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin was quoted as saying.

Aerojet Rocketdyne announced it has completed its 100th deliverable Solid Rocket Booster (SRB), AJ60, for United Launch Alliance (ULA) in support of the Atlas V launch vehicle programme.

Rocket: Chang Zheng 4C; Payload: Yaogan 29 (YG 29); Date: 26 November 2015, 2124 UTC. The remote sensing satellite was placed into a 615 km x 619 km x 97.8 degrees sun-synchronous orbit.

Roskosmos has set the launch date of what appears to be the last Russian-Ukrainian launch vehicle in the Zenit family of launch systems.

For the 11th launch of 2015 from the Guiana Space Center, the Vega light launcher on its overall sixth mission, this time on behalf of ESA, will orbit the LISA Pathfinder technology demonstrator, into an elliptical low Earth orbit for a mission to the L1 Lagrange point. Lift-off is scheduled for Wednesday, 2 December 2015, at exactly 0415 UTC.

Rocket: H-IIA (Upgrade); Payload: Telstar 12 VANTAGE (Telstar 12V); Date: 24 November 2015, 0650 UTC; Launch site: Tanegashima Space Center, Japan. The launch vehicle flew as planned and, at about 4 hours and 27 minutes after lift-off, the separation of the Telstar 12 VANTAGE satellite was confirmed.

NASA commercial partner Orbital ATK is targeting Thursday, 3 December for the launch of its fourth contracted mission to the International Space Station under the agency’s Commercial Resupply Services contract.