Satellite News

NASA announced the award of launch services for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission to Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services.

Japan: Launch of M-V launch vehicle No. 7 / India: Replacement for INSAT-4C

NASA has signed a memorandum of understanding with AirLaunch LLC to explore collaborations in space launch systems and payloads launched from aircraft.

Rocketplane Kistler (RpK) and Orbital Sciences Corporation have entered into a strategic relationship to support the NASA COTS programme and other applications of RpK’s space transportation system.

Rocket: Molniya-M/Blok-2BL [Molniya 8K78M 2BL]; Payload: Kosmos 2422; Date: 21 July 2006, 0420 UTC; Launch Site: Plesetsk, Russia. The military satellite is in stable contact with ground control, according to the Russian Space Forces.

A new launch date has been announced for TacSat 3.
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The European Space Agency (ESA) and Arianespace announced that they have signed a launch contract for the second radar satellite in the Sentinel-1 mission, Sentinel-1B, part of Copernicus, a joint European Union and European Space Agency (ESA) environmental monitoring programme.