Satellite News

The cargo transport vehicle Progress MS-13 to the International Space Station (ISS) is scheduled to launch on 6 December 2019 at 0934 UTC from Baikonur, while docking with the station was scheduled for 9 December.

Due to unfavourable weather conditions over the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, Arianespace has decided to delay the Flight VA250.

Technical problems have been revealed in Russia’s Progress MS-13 cargo spacecraft, scheduled to be launched to the International Space Station (ISS) on 1 December. Although they have meanwhile been rectified, the date of the launch remains uncertain, the Russian State Space Corporation Roskosmos said.

Boeing’s new CST-100 Starliner is now connected to the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket that will launch the spacecraft on its first flight test to the International Space Station. lift-off from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station is targeted for 17 December.

The next Arianespace Ariane 5 flight has been authorised for lift-off on 22 November following a launch readiness review, which was conducted at the Spaceport in French Guiana.

ISRO said the launch of its Earth-imaging and mapping satellite Cartosat-3 along with 13 commercial nano satellites from the US, has been rescheduled to 27 November (UTC).

ESA, Arianespace, and respective industrial prime contractors ArianeGroup and Avio signed protocols on the Launchers Exploitation Phase for Ariane 6 and Vega-C.

Firefly Aerospace announced 26 payloads were selected to fly on the Dedicated Research and Education Accelerator Mission (DREAM), a global competition to host academic and educational payloads as rideshare participants on the inaugural flight of the Firefly Alpha launch vehicle.