Satellite News

The launch of a United Launch Alliance Delta IV carrying the Air Force’s Global Positioning System IIF-6 payload on 16 May (UTC) was scrubbed owing to the violation of multiple weather criteria.

Russia has postponed the launch of the Meteor-M No. 2 hydro-meteorological satellite originally scheduled for 19 June to a later date.

The International Space Station (ISS)-RapidScat scatterometer instrument arrived at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 12 May after a cross-country trip from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California.

The GLONASS-M No. 55 navigation spacecraft, developed and built by ISS-Reshetnev Company, was shipped off to the Plesetsk launch site on 15 May 2014.

Eutelsat Communications announced that its Eutelsat 3B satellite is ready for launch by a Zenit-3SL rocket operated by Sea Launch AG from the ocean-based Odyssey Launch Platform in the international waters of the Pacific Ocean.

The Proton M/Ekspress AM4R integrated launch vehicle (ILV) was rolled out to the launch pad at 0030 UTC today, where the ILV was installed on the launch pad and erected.

The launch of six Orbcomm Generation 2 (OG2) satellites aboard an upgraded Falcon 9 rocket from SpaceX’s Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral, originally scheduled for 10 May, has been postponed.

The first two Galileo FOC (Full Operational Capability) satellites arrived today at the Guiana Space Center (CSG), Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. In the next few days, preparations for their launch will kick off.