Satellite News

The Sea Launch maritime launch platform has been prepared to be moved from the U.S. to Russia, with all of its U.S. and Ukrainian-made components removed, a source in the Russian space industry has said.

Kepler Communications has signed a launch agreement with Innovative Space Logistics B.V (ISL) working with GK Launch Services to deploy two satellites into Sun-synchronous orbit in Q2-Q3 2020. The satellites will be the first of multiple batches of the next-generation platform, forming part of Kepler’s Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation for global data services.

Rocket: Chang Zheng-4C, Payload: Gaofen-10 [Gaofen-10R]; Date: 4 October 2019, 1851 UTC; Launch site: Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, China. The observation satellite was deployed into a 612 km x 622 km x 97.78 degrees Sun-synchronous orbit.

Intuitive Machines selected SpaceX to launch its lunar lander, Nova-C, to the Moon in 2021 on a Falcon 9 rocket.

Iran plans to send three satellites into orbit in the next three months, Iran’s state TV reported.

United Launch Services has been awarded a $99 million firm-fixed-price contract for Atlas V Completion launch services.

Operation of the basic version of the Rokot carrier rocket may be discontinued on 29 November after it is launched from the Plesetsk cosmodrome with three Gonets satellite systems, first deputy head of the JSC Gonets Satellite System Oleg Khimochko said.

The Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC), in partnership with the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), awarded a sole source, five-year, US$1.18 billion Firm-Fixed-Price (FFP) modification of the Delta IV Heavy contract, saving US$455 million.