Satellite News

The U.S. Navy and Lockheed Martin have delivered the third Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) spacecraft to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, where it will be prepared for a January 2015 lift-off aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.

Spaceflight Inc. and Japan Manned Space Systems Corporation (JAMSS) announced a co-operative launch service agreement to integrate and deploy CubeSats from the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Astro-H mission. The Spaceflight and JAMSS commercial partnership has enabled U.S. commercial CubeSat customers to launch on an H-IIA launch vehicle for the first time.

Three of the four satellites for O3b Networks’ next flight have been delivered to French Guiana, where they will be readied for an Arianespace Soyuz launch planned for 18 December.

Rocket: Soyuz 2.1a; Payload: Meridian 7 (Meridian No. 17L); Date: 30 October 2014, 0143 UTC; Launch site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The governmental spacecraft was accurately placed on the target orbit of 968 km x 39,750 km x 62.8 degrees.

Russia plans to launch about 70 Proton space rockets by 2020 from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the head of Russia’s federal space agency said.

ESA has signed an agreement with the U.S. Strategic Command to improve data exchange between the organisations for supporting missions.

A plane carrying a European satellite [apparently Astra 2G] on the way to the Baikonur cosmodrome has made an emergency landing at the airport of Ulyanovsk in Russia, a spokesperson for the Volga Investigative Committee on Transport

The Yamal 401 telecommunications spacecraft was delivered to the Baikonur Cosmodrome aboard a cargo plane.