Satellite News

ISS-Reshetnev team has completed the main in-orbit flight testing programme on the telecommunications satellite Ekspress-AM8.

Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC) Energia has taken out a patent for the invention of a transformable habitable module for the Russian Segment of the International Space Station (ISS) and future space stations.

The Russian Defence Ministry has received two satellites as part of the country’s new missile early warning network, Deputy Minister Yuri Borisov said.

Malin Space Science Systems, Inc. (MSSS), has delivered the camera system it produced for NASA’s 2016 OSIRIS-REx mission to return a sample of the asteroid Bennu. This system, collectively called the Touch-and-Go-Camera-System (TAGCAMS), consists of three camera heads and a digital video recorder (DVR).

A Proton M launch vehicle, utilising a 5-burn Briz M mission design, will lift off from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, with the TURKSAT-4B satellite on board on 16 October 2015 at 2040 UTC.

Airbus Defence and Space has finished building the structural model for ESA’s CHEOPS (CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite), Europe’s first mission to search for exoplanetary transits by performing ultra-high precision photometry on bright stars already known to host planets.

Saft has been awarded a Long Term Agreement (LTA) with The Boeing Company (Boeing) to supply lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries for its telecommunication satellites.

The Koreasat 5A and Koreasat 7 telecommunications satellites currently under construction by Thales Alenia Space will include the largest spacecraft parts ever made in Europe using a 3D printing technique called the “powder bed additive manufacturing process.”