Satellite News

Spacefligh announced it has purchased the first commercial launch of the Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) from NewSpace India Limited (NSIL) scheduled for launch from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota, India later this year.

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket is in final preparations to launch the fifth Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) military communications satellite for the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center. The launch is planned for 8 August at Space Launch Complex-41 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

Arianespace introduced a service providing fast-track access to Geosynchronous Equatorial Orbit (also known as geostationary orbit, or GEO) for the new generation of small satellites, offering a first flight opportunity with more than 4,500 kg of such payloads on its “GO-1” mission in the first half of 2022.

The launch of the second Russian satellite for weather forecasting and monitoring climate and environment in the Arctic region, Arktika-M, has been postponed to 2023 from 2021, according to documents of Russia space corporation Roskosmos published on the public procurement website.

Arianespace’s third Ariane 5 flight of 2019 has been given the “green light” for lift-off on 6 August following the launch readiness review, which was conducted at the Spaceport in French Guiana.

The Proton-M rocket that will launch MEV-1 (Mission Extension Vehicle 1) and Eutelsat 5WB has been delivered to the Baikonur spaceport from the Khrunichev Space Center .

Rocket: Soyuz 2.1-a; Payload: Progress MS-12 [Progress 73P]; Date: 31 July 2019, 1210 UTC; Launch site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The Progress MS-12 cargo spacecraft was accurately placed on the target orbit for the ISS resupplying mission. This was the eleventh Soyuz family mission in 2019.

Rocket: Soyuz 2.1-a; Payload: Meridian 8 (Meridian No. 18L); Date: 30 July 2019, 0556 UTC; Launch site: Plesetsk, Russia. The governmental spacecraft was accurately placed on the target orbit. This was the tenth Soyuz family mission in 2019.