Satellite News

The European Space Agency (ESA) has converted a previously contracted back-up launch on a Rokot to a firm agreement with Eurockot Launch Services GmbH for placing into orbit an additional spacecraft from the Copernicus Sentinel range of satellites.

Russia’s Roskosmos space agency is to seek government approval to build the world’s largest rocket, Roskosmos head Oleg Ostapenko was quoted as saying.

Rocket: Atlas V 401; Payload: TDRS-L; Date: 24 January 2013, 0233 UTC; Launch site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, USA. Ground controllers report the satellite is in good health after the successful launch into geostationary transfer orbit.

Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) announced that it has confirmed that the first orbital flight of its Dream Chaser Space System will occur on 1 November 2016. Dream Chaser will be brought to orbit on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket that will launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Virgin Galactic announced that it has reached a significant milestone in the testing of a new family of liquid rocket engines for LauncherOne, the company’s small satellite launch vehicle.

India is to launch three navigation satellites this year, a senior ISRO official was quoted as saying.

India is to launch three navigation satellites this year, a senior ISRO official was quoted as saying.

Reaction Engines Ltd announced that it has entered into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (‘CRADA’) with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory’s Aerospace Systems Directorate (AFRL/RQ).