Satellite News

The Kepler spacecraft remains stable as the process of returning it to science continues. The cause of the anomaly, first reported on 8 April, remains under investigation.

The re-entry capsule of China’s first retrievable microgravity satellite, SJ-10, returned safely to Earth on Monday.

Airbus Defence and Space will supply its highest-precision fibre Optic Gyro Unit (FOG) for a mission led by the U.S., French, Canadian, and United Kingdom Space agencies, NASA, CNES, CSA, and UKSA, that will launch in 2020 to study Earth’s surface water.

The Sentinel-1B satellite, designed and built by Thales Alenia Space is ready to be launched on 22 April from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana, by a Soyuz-Fregat A rocket. This satellite is part of the European Commission’s vast Copernicus Earth observation programme, coordinated by the European Commission, with the European Space Agency (ESA) in charge of the space segment.

The ESA-Roskosmos ExoMars spacecraft are in excellent health following launch last month, with the orbiter sending back its first test image of a starry view taken en route to the Red Planet.

SSC has unveiled SSC Infinity, a new ground operations service that offers customers full flexibility for small satellites and constellations. The new endeavour aims to lower costs while providing reliability to the SmallSat and CubeSat market. SSC has begun installing new small aperture antennas as part of its Universal Space Network expansion.

Information Satellite Systems – Reshetnev Company completed building a geodetic satellite Geo-IK-2 and shipped it to the launch site.

The GOES-R satellite is set to launch on 13 October 2016. GOES-R, or GOES-16 as it will be known once operational, will launch on board an Atlas V 541 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.