Satellite News

Components of the Russian Progress MS-05 cargo spacecraft that survived its reentry into the Earth’s atmosphere have plunged into the Pacific Ocean, the country’s mission control centre said.

NASA and Boeing are reviewing plans to safely replace an antenna on the agency’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS-M).

Europe’s pollution monitoring satellite Sentinel-5 Precursor is ready to leave Airbus’ Stevenage site for launch on a Rokot rocket from Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia.

The launch of the Egyptsat-A satellite is scheduled for 2019, Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Russia’s RSC Energia corporation Alexander Derechin said.

Under a public-private partnership, NASA recently awarded Lockheed Martin a Phase II contract for the Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships (NextSTEP) habitat study contract.

Blagovest, the new telecommunications satellite designed and built by Information Satellite Systems – Reshetnev Company, has safely arrived at the Baikonur cosmodrome.

The Chinese communications satellite Zhongxing-9A [ChinaSat 9A] has entered its preset orbit over two weeks after its launch on 18 June (UTC).

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. announced that its subsidiary Space Systems Loral (SSL) was selected to provide a next-generation satellite constellation for high-resolution Earth imaging to DigitalGlobe.