Satellite News

Rocket: Soyuz-2.1b; Payload: Tundra 15L; Date: 25 November 2021, 0109 UTC; Launch site: Plesetsk, Russia. The Tundra 15L early warning satellite reached the desired orbit, the Russian Defense Ministry said. The satellite was tracked in a 1,639 km x 38,522 km x 63.79 degrees orbit after separation from the rocket.

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Rocket: Kuaizhou-1A; Payload: Shiyan-11; Date: 24 November 2021, 2341 UTC; Launch site: Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China. The classified government satellite was deployed into a 489 km x 502 km x 97.45 degrees Sun-synchronous orbit.

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Rocket: Chang Zheng 4C; Payload: Gaofen-3 02; Date: 22 November 2021, 2345 UTC; Launch site: Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China. The Earth observation satellite was deployed into a 737 km x 746 km x 98.41 degrees Sun-synchronous orbit.

The launch readiness date for the James Webb Space Telescope is moving to no earlier than 22 December to allow for additional testing of the observatory, following a recent incident that occurred during Webb’s launch preparations.

Space Systems Command’s Space Test Program (STP)-3 integrated payload stack, which contains the STP Satellite (STPSat)-6 and the Long Duration Propulsive Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) Secondary Payload Adapter (ESPA), or LDPE-1 space vehicles, has been encapsulated and mated with United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V 551 launch vehicle on 22 November at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, USA.

ESA has awarded Isar Aerospace Technologies in Bavaria a Boost! co-funding contract worth €11 million for launch lach opportunities on the company’s Spectrum launch vehicle.

The first Airbus built Inmarsat-6, I-6 F1, satellite has been shipped from Airbus in Toulouse, France to Tanegashima in Japan ready for launch.

Rocket: Chang Zheng 4B; Payload: Gaofen-11 03; Date: 20 November 2021, 0151 UTC; Launch site: Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, China. The satellites were deployed into 427 km x 439 km x 42.02 degrees orbits.