Satellite News

Pursuant to the State Commission decision, the Proton M integrated launch vehicle (ILV) with the Ekspress AM7 satellite on board rolled out of the Integration & Testing Facility to the launch pad.

Arianespace announced that it has signed launch contracts with Airbus Defence and Space and with Skybox Imaging.

Aerojet Rocketdyne has recently completed a successful series of hot-fire tests of key additively manufactured components for its AR1 booster engine at its Sacramento test facility. The testing of the main injector elements represents another important milestone in the development of the AR1 engine and the company’s commitment to having a certified engine in production in 2019.

Kosmotras has issued s statement “to inform our current and potential customers that publications in the Russian press in February 2015 about the Dnepr Program suspension are not reflecting the reality.”

Rocket: Atlas V 421; Payload: Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS); Date: 13 March 2015, 0244 UTC; Launch site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, USA. After reaching orbit, each spacecraft deployed from the rocket’s upper stage sequentially, in five-minute increments, beginning at 0416, with the last separation occurring at o431 UTC. NASA scientists and engineers were able to confirm the health of all separated spacecraft at o440 UTC.

At the Orbital ATK test facility, the booster for NASA’s Space Launch System rocket was fired for a test on 11 March. The test is one of two that will qualify the booster for flight.

Pressure oscillations when a solid rocket motor ignites could be reduced by a new propellant formula and structure, the European Space Agency said.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has received an order from the Emirates Institution for Advanced Science and Technology (EIAST), an organisation established by the Dubai Government in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), for launch services for the KhalifaSat observation satellite.