Satellite News

A smaller spacecraft has separated from the Kosmos-2519/Napryazhenie military satellite launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome on 23 June, the Russian Defense Ministry’s press-service said.

SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft successfully berthed to the International Space Station (ISS) on 16 August. Notably on this mission was the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC) and Adcole-Maryland Aerospace’s Kestrel Eye IIM (KE2M) satellite.

SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft successfully berthed to the International Space Station (ISS) on 16 August. Notably on this mission was the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC) and Adcole-Maryland Aerospace’s Kestrel Eye IIM (KE2M) satellite.

Thermal vacuum tests of the Angosat satellite have been completed. The tests were conducted under the control of the representatives of the Republic of Angola at Federal Public Enterprise STC RSI, the head Test Center of State Corporation Roskosmos.

UrtheCast Corp. has entered into a contract with a confidential customer for the development and delivery of a dual-frequency stand-alone Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) operational-class satellite as an “accelerator” for the OptiSAR Constellation.

Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) and In-Space Missions Limited (In-Space) have revealed an opportunity for a low cost ride to Low Earth Orbit (LEO).

Progress continues on the development of NOAA’s GOES-S and GOES-T spacecraft that will follow the successful launch of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite or GOES-R, renamed GOES-16 upon reaching geostationary orbit.

The Aerospace Corporation (Aerospace) has been selected by NASA to provide a sensor for an international CubeSat mission that will study scintillation in the ionosphere, a phenomena that affects radio signals, disrupting communications and GPS navigation.