Satellite News

ISRO has successfully placed the high throughput communication satellite GSAT 29 in its final geostationary orbit. This was done after carrying out the final orbit raising operation by firing the liquid apogee motor engine for 207 seconds, the space agency said.

Russia is working on designing a satellite for Kazakhstan, and has invited Uzbekistan to co-operate, Roskosmos representative in Kazakhstan Anatoly Krasnikov was quoted as saying.

Ball Aerospace & Technologies has been awarded US$255 million by the U.S. Air Force for development and manufacturing of the Weather System Follow-on Microwave Space Vehicle 1.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) on 10 November (UTC) successfully retrieved a capsule that was jettisoned from a Japanese unmanned cargo spacecraft and landed in the Pacific Ocean.

The Kounotori7 unmanned Japanese cargo transporter has departed the International Space Station to return to Earth with experiment samples, a first for Japan’s space agency.

Parker Solar Probe is in good condition after skimming by the Sun at just 24 million km from the solar surface.

China Great Wall Industry Corporation and APT Satellite have signed a letter of intent regarding the creation of the Apstar SMALL GEO Communication Satellites System based on the Dong Fang Hong-4 all-electric small GEO platform designed by China Academy of Space Technology (CAST)

The European-built Service Module (ESM) that will propel, power and cool during NASA’s Orion spacecraft on Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1) has arrived from Germany at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday to begin final outfitting, integration and testing with the crew module and other Orion elements.