Satellite News

A Proton M launch vehicle, utilising a 5-burn Briz M mission design, will lift off from Pad 39 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, with the Eutelsat 9B satellite on board at 2220:09 UTC on 29 January 2016 (delayed from 27 January).

On 20 January 2016, China Great Wall Industry Corporation (CGWIC), which is subordinated under China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, and APT Satellite company Limited (APT) jointly conducted the ceremony to celebrate the successful in-orbit delivery to the customer for the Apstar-9 satellite.

The U.S. Air Force Space Command’s Space and Missile Systems Center and the 460th Space Wing have confirmed the Remote Sensing Systems Directorate’s ongoing success of the Space-Based Infrared System’s Block 10 Integrated Test and Evaluation (IT&E) Readiness comprehensive evaluation.

The SENER engineering and technology group has been awarded a new contract for the Euclid scientific space probe, after being appointed leader of the satellite’s Attitude and Orbit Control System (AOCS/GNC).

Information Satellite Systems – Reshetnev Company said it has started developing next-generation power conditioning units for its future satellites.

The Jason-3 operational oceanographic satellite will be launched on 17 January 2016 at 1842:18 UTC from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Jason-3 was built through an international quadripartite partnership between EUMETSAT, NOAA, CNES and NASA.

A Proton M launch vehicle, utilising a 5-burn Briz M mission design, will lift off from Pad 39 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, with the Eutelsat 9B satellite on board at 2219:45 UTC on 27 January 2016.

China has officially begun a new round of lunar exploration and will send the Chang’e-4 probe to the far side of the moon in 2018, China’s State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense (SASTIND) announced.