Satellite News

SpaceX has further delayed the launch of TurkmenAlem52E/MonacoSat aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, and will instead go ahead with the lift-off of a Dragon supply ship on a cargo delivery flight to the International Space Station first.

Tanks of the second stage of the Proton-M rocket due to blast off from Baikonur on 6 April with Ekspress AM8 on board are contaminated, Interfax-AVN reported citing a source in the rocket and space industry.

India is likely to put into orbit its fourth regional navigation satellite on 28 March with the country’s space agency now in the process of loading the rocket with the satellite, an ISRO official was quoted as saying.

Rocket: Proton-M/Briz-M; Payload: Ekspress AM7; Date: 18 March 2015, 2205 UTC; Launch site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. As per the mission plan, the spacecraft/upper stage separation took place 9 hours and 13 minutes after lift-off.

Arianespace and Airbus Defence and Space have reached an agreement for the launch of EDRS-C which is the second geostationary satellite of the SpaceDataHighway system.

NASA has selected United Launch Services, LLC [a subsidiary of United Launch Alliance] to provide launch services for the agency’s Solar Probe Plus (SPP) mission.

The seventh and eighth Galileo satellites, set for launch together in nine days’ time, have been fitted together onto the dispenser that will carry them during their flight to orbit.

The launch of TurkmenAlem52E/MonacoSat aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station has been postponed to no earlier than 28 March.