Satellite News

Rocket: Astra LV0007; Payload: U.S. Space Force test spacecraft; Date: 20 November 2021, 0604 UTC; Launch site: Pacific Spaceport Complex in Kodiak, Alaska/USA. The rocket achieved orbit around nine minutes after launch at 438 km x 507 km x 86.01 degrees.

Maritime Launch Services announced that Nanoracks will serve as the company’s first client when Spaceport Nova Scotia’s operations go live in 2023. For this first mission, Nanoracks will deploy customer smallsats and host spacecraft technology demonstrations.

Rocket: Electron; Payload: two BlackSky Gen-2 satellites; Date: 18 November 2021, 0138 UTC; Launch site: Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand. The Earth-imaging satellites were deployed into 427 km x 439 km x 42.02 degrees orbits.

The launch of the Proton-M heavy lift launch vehicle with the Ekspress-AMU3 and Ekspress-AMU7 communication satellites has been postponed from 6 December to 12 December, CEO of Roskosmos Dmitry Rogozin was quoted as saying.

Smallsat integrator NanoAvionics has announced its latest satellite rideshare mission “MP42” to be launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 with payloads from OQ Technology and Veoware.

5G IoT satellite operator OQ Technology has announced the upcoming launch of its second ‘cell tower in space’.

ESA and the French space agency, CNES, are exploring together the possibility to create a European Space Transportation Hub.

Arianespace signed a contract with Australian operator SingTel Optus to orbit the Optus-11 satellite using the Ariane 6 heavy launch vehicle. Optus-11 will be the seventh SingTel Optus satellite launched by Arianespace.

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