Satellite News

Russia will launch the next batch of OneWeb satellites from the Baikonur cosmodrome on 20 August, Dmitry Rogozin, director general of state space corporation Roskosmos, was quoted as saying.

Related posts:
EC sets deadline for creating Galileo company
ICO Global withdraws petition for review in Boeing litigation
EUMETSAT Council approves EPS Second generation programme
White House tells NASA to resume co-operation with ISRO

SES announced that it had entered into a multi-transponder agreement for its SES-8 satellite with NewSpace India Limited (NSIL), a Central Public Sector Enterprise (CPSE) under Department of Space (DoS) based in Bengaluru, India.

Related posts:
Malaysian imaging satellite lost pointing accuracy after one year of operations
Update: CGWIC confirms upper stage failure doomed CBERS-3
Chang Zheng 3B leaves ChinaSat 9A in useless orbit
Unprecedented combination of parameters doomed Soyuz-2.1b launch

A Russian space official blamed a software problem on the newly docked Nauka module for briefly knocking the International Space Station out of position.

Related posts:
Malaysian imaging satellite lost pointing accuracy after one year of operations
Update: CGWIC confirms upper stage failure doomed CBERS-3
Chang Zheng 3B leaves ChinaSat 9A in useless orbit
Unprecedented combination of parameters doomed Soyuz-2.1b launch

Rocket: Ariane 5 ESC-D; Payload: Eutelsat QUANTUM, Star One D2; Date: 29 July 2021, 2100 UTC; Launch site: Kourou, French Guiana. The satellites were deployed into geostationary transfer orbit.

Related posts:
Landsat 5 imaging limited after battery cell failure
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter out of safe mode
The topsy-turvy rocket
NOAA 16 may have shed debris

Porsche Automobil Holding SE, Stuttgart, acquires a low single-digit percentage stake in Isar Aerospace Technologies GmbH, Ottobrunn. The company develops and manufactures launch vehicles for the transport of satellites. The investment was part of a new financing round of Isar Aerospace.

Related posts:
SpaceX unveils Falcon Heavy final specs
SES-6 launch campaign kicked off at Baikonur Cosmodrome
China to launch science satellite in December
China launches two satellites for multispectral imaging

Inmarsat has unveiled plans for ORCHESTRA, a communications network that is to bring together existing geosynchronous (GEO) satellites with low Earth orbit satellites (LEO) and terrestrial 5G into an integrated, high-performance solution.

Related posts:
SpaceX unveils Falcon Heavy final specs
SES-6 launch campaign kicked off at Baikonur Cosmodrome
China to launch science satellite in December
China launches two satellites for multispectral imaging

Ball Aerospace successfully completed the preliminary design review (PDR) for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA’s) Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) spacecraft. With PDR complete, the spacecraft now moves into the critical design phase.

Related posts:
SpaceX unveils Falcon Heavy final specs
SES-6 launch campaign kicked off at Baikonur Cosmodrome
China to launch science satellite in December
China launches two satellites for multispectral imaging

Airbus has finished the integration of the Copernicus Sentinel-2C satellite. It is the third of its kind and will now be shipped to Munich to undergo extensive environmental tests to prove its readiness for space. The test campaign will last until March 2022.

Related posts:
SpaceX unveils Falcon Heavy final specs
SES-6 launch campaign kicked off at Baikonur Cosmodrome
China to launch science satellite in December
China launches two satellites for multispectral imaging