Satellite News

Spaceflight announced that together with Hypergiant SEOPS, it will be launching three CubeSats from the International Space Station (ISS) and Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft in early January.

Officials at JAXA have struck a deal with Tokyo-based venture firm Space BD to arrange for different microsatellites to be launched on the same rocket.

The launch of Boeing’s uncrewed Orbital Flight Test to the International Space Station, as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, now is targeted for 1159 UTC on 19 December 2019.

The launch of a Rokot rocket with three Gonets-M telecommunications satellites from Plesetsk has been scheduled for 26 December (local time), First Deputy Director General of Gonetsk Satellite System company Oleg Khimochko was quoted as saying.

China has successfully tested the second stage engine of the Chang Zheng-8 rocket, preparing for its maiden flight in 2020, according to the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC).

Officials on Friday scrubbed the launch of Rocket Lab Electron rocket from New Zealand.

Russia’s Progress MS-12 cargo spacecraft, undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday and burned up as scheduled during reentry into the Earth’s atmosphere, with its debris landing in the Pacific Ocean, a representative of the main research arm of the Russian State Space Corporation Roskosmos said.

Rocket: PSLV-C47; Payload: Cartosat-3, 13 nano satellites; Date: 27 November 2019, 0358 UTC; Launch site: Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) SHAR, Sriharikota, India. After 17 minutes and 38 seconds, Cartosat-3 was successfully injected into a Sun-synchronous orbit of 509 km.