Satellite News

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is confirmed for the target launch date of 24 December at 1220 UTC.

Rocket: Falcon 9; Payload: Türksat 5B; Date: 19 December 2021, 0358 UTC; Launch site: Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, USA. The satellite was deployed into a geostationary transfer orbit.

Rocket: Falcon 9; Payload: 52 Starlink satellites; Date: 18 December 2021, 0942 UTC; Launch site: Vandenberg Space Force Station, USA. The satellites were deployed into a 53.22 degrees inclination orbit.

The second batch of recipients for this year’s edition of Euroconsult’s Awards for Excellence in Satellite Business have been revealed during World Satellite Business Week.

NSR’s newly released Global Satellite Ground Segment, 6th Edition report, finds strong post COVID-19 return to growth for the Ground Segment, illuminating a massive increase in upcoming satellite capacity supply. With a double-digit growth forecast, cumulative industry revenues reach US$147 billion through decade.

The Northrop Grumman Corporation and Ball Aerospace team successfully achieved three critical milestones on production of its Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (Next Gen OPIR) Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO) Engineering Development Unit (EDU) payload.

Isar Aerospace and the German Space Agency at DLR [German Aerospace Center] have announced the selection of the institutional payloads for the maiden flight of the “Spectrum” rocket planned for the end of 2022 as part of the microlauncher competition.

Three Soyuz-2 rocket launches next year are set to perform rideshare missions, according to data posted on the website of the Glavkosmos commercial launch operator (part of the State Space Corporation Roskosmos).