Satellite News

BlackSky’s latest satellites reached orbit and delivered first insights within 14 hours of launch.

Maritime Launch Services announced that Nanoracks will serve as the company’s first client when Spaceport Nova Scotia’s operations go live in 2023. For this first mission, Nanoracks will deploy customer smallsats and host spacecraft technology demonstrations.

Rocket: Astra LV0007; Payload: U.S. Space Force test spacecraft; Date: 20 November 2021, 0604 UTC; Launch site: Pacific Spaceport Complex in Kodiak, Alaska/USA. The rocket achieved orbit around nine minutes after launch at 438 km x 507 km x 86.01 degrees.

Rocket: Chang Zheng 4B; Payload: Gaofen-11 03; Date: 20 November 2021, 0151 UTC; Launch site: Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, China. The satellites were deployed into 427 km x 439 km x 42.02 degrees orbits.

ICEYE announced that it has entered into a co-operative research and development agreement (CRADA) with the U.S. Army’s Space and Missile Defense Technical Center (SMDTC) to advance Earth observation technology in support of U.S. Army missions.

Thales Alenia Space announced that it has signed a contract with SES to deliver two Ku-band geostationary satellites, ASTRA 1P and ASTRA 1Q to serve SES’s major European broadcasters’ content distribution operations as well as deliver connectivity services over Europe at 19.2° East.

ESA and the French space agency, CNES, are exploring together the possibility to create a European Space Transportation Hub.

5G IoT satellite operator OQ Technology has announced the upcoming launch of its second ‘cell tower in space’.