Satellite News

Airbus has completed Sentinel-6B, the second ocean monitoring satellite of the European Copernicus programme, and is now testing it extensively over the next six months in preparation for its use in space.

NASA has awarded the Booster Production and Operations Contract (BPOC) to Northrop Grumman to build boosters for the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket to support nine SLS flights.

The launch of the Atlas V 551 carrying the Space Test Program (STP)-3 mission for the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) has been delayed to 6 December at 0904 UTC owing to a leak in the Rocket Propellant (RP)-1 ground storage system.

Rocket: Falcon 9; Payload: 48 Starlink satellites, two BlackSky satellites; Date: 2 December 2021, 2312 UTC; Launch site: Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, USA.

Rocket: Soyuz ST-B/Fregat MT; Payload: two Galileo satellites (FM 23, FM 24); Date: 5 December 2021, 0019 UTC; Launch site: Sinnamary, French Guiana. Separation of the two satellites from the launcher occurred 4 hours later, at approximately 22,500 km of altitude.

TsNIIMash, a leading research institute of Russia’s State Space Corporation Roskosmos will develop satellites capable of altering payload functions in orbit, Director of the Roskosmos Department of Long-Term Programs and the Sfera (Sphere) Project Sergey Prokhorov was quoted as saying.

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Europe’s next pair of Galileo satellites have been given a green light for launch. The Launch Readiness Review confirmed that the satellites, the supporting ground installations, and the early operations facilities and teams are ready for lift-off.

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The Prichal nodal module making part of the Progress M-NM space freighter launched from the Baikonur spaceport on 24 November docked with the Russian Nauka multi-purpose research laboratory onboard the International Space Station (ISS).