Satellite News

The telecommunications spacecraft Ekspress-AM5, developed and built by ISS-Reshetnev Company, has arrived safely at the Baikonur cosmodrome in preparation for launch.

A United States Air Force Minotaur I rocket is scheduled to lift-off at 0030 UTC on 20 November from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport’s Pad-0B at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

The Briz M upper stage designated to the Proton launch vehicle that will be used to loft Inmarsat 5F-1 for Inmarsat was delivered today to the Baikonur Cosmodrome.

Rocket: Proton M/Briz M; Payload: Raduga-1M 3; Date: 11 November 2013, 2346 UTC; Launch site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The launch vehicle successfully placed a satellite for the Russian Ministry of Defense into orbit.

The first Inmarsat-5 Global Xpress satellite has recently been shipped to its launch site.

The preliminary requirements for Europe’s next-generation Ariane 6 launcher have been agreed and the project is set to move on to the next stage.

Russia plans to launch a military satellite aboard a Proton-M on 12 November, Novosti reported citing Roskosmos.

The complex task of placing all three Swarm satellites on their launch adapter is complete. This is another significant milestone in preparing ESA’s latest Earth observation mission for lift-off, which is now set for 22 November, 1202 UTC.