Satellite News

The recent SpaceX Transporter-4 mission included three satellites built by smallsat mission integrator NanoAvionics for multiple customers.

Related posts:
Northrop delivers first AEHF payload
GPS IIIA contract likely to be awarded next month
Update: NOAA deactivates GOES-10 after 12 years of tracking storms
Surrey Satellite US opens new satellite mission facility in Colorado

Satellogic Inc. announced the launch of five additional spacecraft from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The satellites were delivered to a Sun-synchronous low-Earth orbit on SpaceX’s Transporter-4 mission on 1 April 2022 onboard the Falcon 9 reusable, two-stage rocket, under SpaceX’s Rideshare programme. All five satellites have made contact with the company’s ground station network with good health reports, bringing Satellogic’s constellation total to 22 satellites in orbit.

Related posts:
Northrop delivers first AEHF payload
GPS IIIA contract likely to be awarded next month
Update: NOAA deactivates GOES-10 after 12 years of tracking storms
Surrey Satellite US opens new satellite mission facility in Colorado

Kleos Space S.A., a space-powered Radio Frequency Reconnaissance data-as-a- service (DaaS) company, successfully launched its third satellite cluster, the Patrol Mission on 1 April 2022 onboard the Transporter-4 SpaceX mission.

Related posts:
Northrop delivers first AEHF payload
GPS IIIA contract likely to be awarded next month
Update: NOAA deactivates GOES-10 after 12 years of tracking storms
Surrey Satellite US opens new satellite mission facility in Colorado

Omnispace and Thales Alenia Space announced that Omnispace Spark-1 was successfully delivered into orbit aboard the SpaceX Transporter-4. The Omnispace Spark programme represents phase one in the development and delivery of the world’s first standards-based global hybrid network.

Related posts:
Northrop delivers first AEHF payload
GPS IIIA contract likely to be awarded next month
Update: NOAA deactivates GOES-10 after 12 years of tracking storms
Surrey Satellite US opens new satellite mission facility in Colorado

The EnMAP hyperspectral satellite developed and built at OHB was launched from Cape Canaveral (Florida, USA) on board a Falcon 9 rocket from U.S. space company SpaceX. The satellite separated from its launch vehicle just 15 minutes after lift-off. First contact was established over a ground station in Svalbard, Norway, 60 minutes later.

Related posts:
Northrop delivers first AEHF payload
GPS IIIA contract likely to be awarded next month
Update: NOAA deactivates GOES-10 after 12 years of tracking storms
Surrey Satellite US opens new satellite mission facility in Colorado

China’s Tianzhou-2 cargo craft entered the Earth’s atmosphere under ground control, the China Manned Space Agency announced.

Related posts:
ATCi integrates teleport for AGH Media Group
M77 contracts additional capacity with SES
Introduction of DVB Carrier ID progresses
Stallion Oilfield Services doubles satellite capacity with SES

Rocket: Falcon 9; Payload: Transporter 4 mission; Date: 1 April 2022, 1624 UTC; Launch site: Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, USA. On board this flight were 40 spacecraft, including CubeSats, microsats, picosats, non-deploying hosted payloads, and an orbital transfer vehicle carrying spacecraft to be deployed at a later time.

Related posts:
ATCi integrates teleport for AGH Media Group
M77 contracts additional capacity with SES
Introduction of DVB Carrier ID progresses
Stallion Oilfield Services doubles satellite capacity with SES

Rocket: Electron; Payload: two BlackSky satellites; Date: 2 April 2022, 1241 UTC; Launch site: Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand. Electron successfully delivered the pair of BlackSky Gen-2 Earth-imaging satellites to a circular 430-km orbit, growing BlackSky’s constellation of real-time geospatial monitoring spacecraft to 14.

Related posts:
ATCi integrates teleport for AGH Media Group
M77 contracts additional capacity with SES
Introduction of DVB Carrier ID progresses
Stallion Oilfield Services doubles satellite capacity with SES