Satellite News

Rocket: Soyuz-2.1b; Payload: 34 OneWeb satellites; Date: 22 August 2021, 0013 UTC; Launch site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The mission lasted three hours and 45 minutes. The 34 satellites have been separated, during nine separation sequences, at an altitude of 450 km.

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Rocket: Chang Zheng 4B; Payload: two Tianhui 2-02 satellites; Date: 18 August 2021, 2232 UTC; Launch site: Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, China. The radar mapping satellites were deployed into approx. 500 km x 520 km x 97.45 degrees Sun-synchronous orbit.

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Rocket Lab, a leading launch provider and space systems company, announced it has signed a rideshare agreement with Scottish-American PocketQube satellite manufacturer, Alba Orbital, to launch a cluster of small satellites designed to demonstrate radio and night-time Earth observation technologies.

The upper stage of the Ariane 5 rocket which will launch the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) later this year, is on its way to Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.

China’s Yunhai 1-02 satellite was damaged on 18 March 2021, apparently by a piece of a fragmented Zenit-2 rocket that launched a Tselina-2 electronic spy satellite in September 1996.

Phantom Space Corporation, a space transportation technology development and manufacturing company, announced the successful acquisition of Micro Aerospace Solutions, a provider of space communications systems, space propulsion systems, and electrical hardware design for spacecraft and rockets.

Spire Global, Inc., a provider of space-based data, analytics and space services, announced it has completed its previously announced business combination with NavSight Holdings, Inc. to take Spire public.

NASA commercial cargo provider SpaceX is targeting Saturday, 28 August, to launch its 23rd commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station.