Satellite News

Harris Corporation said it has delivered a system that will help prepare U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellite operators for the new Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite – R (GOES-R) Series weather satellites.

Orbital Sciences Corporation announced that its Cygnus cargo logistics spacecraft successfully completed its rendezvous and approach manoeuvres with the International Space Station (ISS) and was grappled and berthed with the station by the Expedition 37 astronaut crew earlier this morning.

The Astra 2E satellite, designed and manufactured for satellite operator SES by Astrium, is ready to be launched on 29 September, 2138 UTC by an International Launch Services Proton launch vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

The Canadian satellite CASSIOPE (Cascade SmallSat and Ionospheric Polar Explorer) is ready for its second attempt to launch. The event is planned on 29 September with a launch window opening at 1600 UTC. CASSIOPE will lift off from Vandenberg, California aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

NASA and its International Space Station partners have approved a 29 September target arrival of Orbital Sciences’ Cygnus spacecraft on its demonstration cargo resupply mission to the space station.

The crewed Soyuz TMA-10 vessel has docked with the ISS as planned. Approach to the International Space Station (ISS), its fly-around, stationkeeping and docking were performed normally, in automatic mode.

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Managers from Orbital Sciences and NASA have decided to postpone the approach, rendezvous, grapple and berthing operations of Orbital’s Cygnus cargo logistics spacecraft with the International Space Station to no earlier than Saturday, 28 September.