Satellite News

Russian Space Agency head Vladimir Popovkin said that an inspection has found no flaws in a batch of rocket engines similar to the one that has caused a crash of Progress 12M on 24 August.

A Zenith-3SLB/Block DM-SLB successfully put the Intelsat 18 telecommunications spacecraft into its targeted geosynchronous transfer orbit. The spacecraft separated from the upper stage at 0334 UTC.

ViaSat Inc. has announced that the launch of the ViaSat-1 high-capacity satellite is scheduled for 19 October at 1848 UTC. The satellite will be launched from the historic Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

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International Launch Services (ILS) successfully carried the QuetzSat-1 satellite into geostationary transfer orbit on an ILS Proton for SES. This was the 19th SES satellite launched on ILS Proton.
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Mexican government’s communications and transport administration, Secretara de Comunicaciones y Transportes, has awarded a contract to Arianespace to launch the country’s new Mexsat 3 telecommunications satellite.
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